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Canadian poetry -- 21st century.
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Thornton, Russell.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century.
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Birds
,
metals
,
stones
and
rain
/ Russell Thornton.
by
Thornton, Russell.
Harbour Publishing, 2013.
Call #:
819.16 T514b
Subjects
Canadian poetry -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9781550176018 (pbk.)
Description:
77 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Poems.
Summary:
"Russell Thornton's latest collection of poems explores powerful, primary human relationships through images of two worlds: the natural and the urban industrial. Simple grass is the iron of an invisible forging within nature that involves the human creative consciousness. A scavenger alley crow is the universal creative spirit in brutal primordial disguise. A murderously violent father and son are integrated into a single new man who walks 'bright as a song in the air.' A young daughter flings up her arms to seagulls that 'collect up the world, opening it like a door.' An infant son fights the 'anger in him ... the death ... with the heaven in living flailing hands.' Intensely personal,
Birds
,
Metals
,
Stones
and
Rain
reveals how essential human identity reinitiates human consciousness in a participatory universe. Russell Thornton's books include The Fifth Window, A Tunisian Notebook, House Built of
Rain
, The Human Shore, and his latest collection,
Birds
,
Metals
,
Stones
and
Rain
. For the past number of years he has lived where he was born and grew up, in North Vancouver"--Provided by publisher.
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Canadian poetry.
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Alderney Gate Public Library
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819.16 T514b
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