Canisia Lubrin and Valzhyna Mort have been awarded the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize, which gives out two $65,000 prizes — one to a book of Canadian poetry and one to an international book of poetry.
"When a poem begins to pile up the similes, comparing an object to multiple other objects, there’s going to be trouble. Multiple similes signify instability. An emotional shift is likely to take place, a disappearance or a metamorphosis. What we get in the second part of 'The Meadow Mouse' is a disappearance."
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