Drank, Recruited: Volume 24

I drank once for the want of it, twice to be rid of it.
I drank the first time because I was afraid to drink the second time.
I drank the first time to prepare myself to drink the second time.
I drank the first time so I had to drink less the second time.
I drank the first time without knowing so the second was my first time.
I drank once to be recruited, twice to recruit others.

Drank, Recruited is about knowing through thirsting; drinking through wanting. Love as a silken rug which stretches from thought to fact so that there be aliveness where there is certainty, and life where there is fact. With a voice of eruptive sincerity and intimate incisiveness these poems are scenarios of language-making and relation.

Author: Ami Xherro
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Published: 10/01/2023
Pages: 100
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781771838245
ISBN10: 1771838248
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Women Authors
- Poetry | Canadian

About the Author

Ami Xherro is a poet, artist and educator originally from Tirana, Albania, and currently based in Toronto. She is the author of a chapbook, The Unfinished Flame of the Lower Oceans (Swimmers Group, 2017), and other poems. She holds a BA and MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto. Drank, Recruited is her debut poetry collection.