Turza, Anne-Marie: Fugue with Bedbug

House of Anansi Press, paperback Publication Date: April 5, 2022 Publisher Marketing: The eagerly awaited second collection from acclaimed poet Anne-Marie Turza. Be startled by metaphysical snails and the ghosts of footnotes in the dark. Fugue with Bedbug is part musical reference, part portraiture, a series of uncanny poems attending to time and mortality, an eccentric essay, and a musical score. Using the fugue form as a foil and a quiet compositional strategy, poet Anne-Marie Turza argues that the mission: “in afterthought, was Jell-O, a salad of delicate intent and shimmy . . .”