The colours of the forest / Tom Wayman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wayman, Tom, 1945-

Language:

English

Physical Description:

157 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Colors of the forest

Place of Publication:

Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Pub., 1999.

Summary:

"Good young artists bring a freshness of vision to us, " Tom Wayman writes about The Colours of the Forest." And that ability is vital to help any society renew its enthusiasm for existence. But there are aspects to life that the young -- however talented -- are unable to see. The goal of the poems in The Colours of the Forest is to reveal what the young cannot."

The poems in this new collection by Tom Wayman show the manifold tasks of living -- the rhythms, patterns, humiliations and exaltations provided by long term traffic with the people, objects, landscapes and events of a community and family. The Colours of the Forest casts a middle-aged eye on the mix of magic and banality found in the natural world, in sexual union, in the vicissitudes of employment; in the sad and painful unearthing and assessment of one's own behaviours; in the deaths of a parent or friend.

Above all, Wayman's poems celebrate the mysterious confluence of desire, perception and creativity we term artistic expression -- that forest fountain at which the poet has been both privileged and grateful to drink.

Notes:

Poems.

ISBN:

1550172026 :

OCLC:

44914398