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Avison, Margaret, 1918-2007.
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The essential
Margaret
Avison
/ selected by Robyn Sarah.
by
Avison
,
Margaret
,
1918-2007
.
Porcupine's Quill, c2010.
Call #:
819.154 A958e
Series
Essential poets ; 6
URL856
Front cover image
ISBN:
9780889843332
0889843333
Uniform title:
Poems
. Selections
Description:
63 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Poems
.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references: p. 63.
Contents:
From Elsewhere in Always Now: The Collected
Poems
(Volume 1)The Butterfly Winter SunSnowJonathan, O JonathanThe World Still NeedsAll Fool's EveHiatusNovember 23New Year's PoemThe Swimmer's MomentSeptember StreetWatershedThawMordent for a Melody From Elsewhere in Always Now: The Collected
Poems
(Volume 1)The Typographer's Ornate Symbol at the End of a Chapter or Story The DumbfoundingPaceTwilightIn a Season of UnemploymentJuly ManA Nameless OneMany as Two A StoryThe Dumbfounding sunblueOughtiness OustedHid LifeSlow AdventReleased FlowCement Worker on a Hot DayScar-faceA Lament No TimeNoted, FounderedPowerLossCrowd Corralling Not Yet but StillLit Sky and Foundered EarthPoringConcrete and Wild CarrotBalancing Out Too Towards Tomorrow: New
Poems
, in Always Now: The Collected
Poems
(Volume 3)Sad Song Momentary DarkFinished When UnfinishedPrayer of AnticipationEn RoutePoetry Is ListeningStill LifeMetamorphosisSafe but Shaky
Summary:
The Essential
Margaret
Avison
showcases the development of one of Canada's most brilliant and original poets, twice winner of the Governor-General's Award for Poetry.
Margaret
Avison
's vibrant life work is distilled here into a selection that is illuminating, generous and richly varied.
All Fools' Eve From rooming-house to rooming-house The toasted evening spells City to hayrick, warming and bewildering A million motes. From gilded tiers, Balconies, and sombre rows, Women see gopher-hawks, and rolling flaxen hills; Smell a lost childhood's homely supper. Men lean with folded newspapers, Touched by a mushroom and root-cellar Coolness. The wind flows, Ruffles, unquickens. Crumbling ash Leaves the west chill. The Sticks-&-Stones, this City, Lies funeral bare. Over its gaping arches stares That haunt, the mirror mineral. In cribs, or propped at plastic tablecloths, Children are roundeyed, caught by a cold magic, Fading of glory. In their dim Cement-floored garden the zoo monkeys shiver. Doors slam. Lights snap, restore The night's right prose. Gradually All but the lovers' ghostly windows close.
Genre:
Canadian poetry.
Other authors:
Sarah, Robyn
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