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The deer yard : a winter cycle / Allan Cooper and Harry Thurston.

by Cooper, Allan, 1954-

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Gaspereau Press, c2013.

Canadian poetry -- 21st century

9781554471201 (pbk.)

1554471206 (pbk.)

1 v. (unpaged) 18 cm.

"In the winter of 2009, Harry Thurston travelled to Campbell River on Vancouver Island to serve a term as writer in residence in the former home of the renowned fisherman and environmentalist Roderick Haig-Brown. While there, he and his longtime friend Allan Cooper embarked on a poetic correspondence; Thurston would send his Campbell River poems east and Cooper would reply. In this, they were consciously following the model of the Wang River Sequence, a poetic correspondence written by the Chinese poets Wang Wei and P'ei Ti over 1200 years ago. "Our poetry – separately – has always been rooted deeply in the natural world," writes Thurston. "Like many other Western poets, we have looked to the East, to classical Chinese poetry, as one model to best express our relationship with what we now call the environment, a no less reverential term than Nature." The resulting twenty-one poems are reflective and richly imagistic, chronicling a single winter season as experienced by two writers on opposite Canadian coasts"--Provided by publisher.

Canadian poetry.

Thurston, Harry, 1950-

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