112th Street Notebook is a book about winter, about its shape and architecture, about the fevered desire for change when we are functionally locked in place. In 112th Street Notebook, poet and artist Kristjana Gunnars presents the unflinching Canadian cold as a tenuous dance between monastic hermitage and all-out siege, weaving in contemplations from Sufi philosophy to Schopenhauer to Shostakovich. One can think of 112th Street Notebook as being in conversation with Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground, if that conversation took place during an unreliable long-distance call on a desolate winter night, as each party wondered if the other was still on the line.