About the Book


Quotes
“Necessary Crimes establishes a precedent, a place of origins-quick keen lines and resonating paradoxes of fear and joy, gritty textures and magic, presence and absence.”
—Prairie Fire

“Her poetry is a rough caress of words: palm, fingers, tips, running lightly over the erect down on our skin, the caressing hand thickened with effort, self-denial, and disappointment. A submissive eroticism blended with an unyielding vision of the
unreasonableness of the world.”
—Zygote

About the Author
Catherine Hunter teaches English at the University of Winnipeg. She is the author of several collections of poetry, including Latent Heat. She is also the author of two literary mysteries: The Dead of Midnight and Where Shadows Burn.