Urban Fits by Karl Petersen
This new collection from Karl Petersen explores the urban landscape of
Vancouver, BC. The poems both celebrate city life and express a yearning
for belonging amid urban complexity. Petersen finds redemption from
without and from within the city's walls where we hear cries for a
significance of person and place. Often, the most unexpected revelations
are found in the city's hidden corners. The title, Urban Fits,
suggests the neurotic state of urban life and questions whether the
urban environment is fit for human life, but the title also implies that
we who live there must fit ourselves the city as home. With humour and
word play, through deft, vivid phrasing and startling metaphor, the
voices in these poems offer spiritual insight into urban life.