Steve Noyes: 2 books

"In a sober and carefully understated voice I say: this is a damn good poet." Al Purdy on Backing into Heaven Ghost Country enters the difficult electric air between cultures and lovers, alive to the fierce exoticism of desire but also to its confusions, its political and personal dissonances....

Divorced, approaching forty, Jeff Mott leaves his ex and young daughter behind in Canada and travels to China. He starts teaching in a small town north of Beijing, and meets a young woman, Wang Bian Fu, and falls in love; however, as they get to know each other, Bian Fu’s family life and emotions...