Prior to her stunning first novel, <b>Fugitive Pieces</b>, Anne Michaels had already won awards and critical acclaim for two books of poetry: <b>The Weight of Oranges</b> (1986), which won the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas, and <b>Miner's Pond</b> (1991), which received the Canadian Authors Association Award and was short-listed for the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Award. Although they were published separately, these two books, along with <b>Skin Divers</b>, a collection of Michaels's newest work, were written as companion volumes.<br><br><b>Poems</b> brings all three books together for the first time, creating for American readers a wonderful introduction to Anne Michaels's poetry. Meditative and insightful, powerful and heart-moving, these are poems that, as Michael Ondaatje has written, &quot;go way beyond games or fashion or politics . . . They represent the human being entire.&quot;