Parable Beach / Paddy McCallum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCallum, Paddy.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

viii, 100 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : Beach Holme Pub., 2000.

Summary:

Whether speaking in the voices of seventeenth-century French fur trader Pierre Radisson, nineteenth-century British explorer David Thompson, or settler Thomas Scott, the man Louis Riel executed during the Red River Rebellion, Paddy McCallum has an uncanny ability to conjure the slap of a birchbark canoe through northern waters, the sting of "salt-packed/logs set free from boom/and blade and fire," and the scent of reindeer moss, cranberry, and moose scat. In McCallum's vision, parables are to be found everywhere: in granite, in the roar of unseen rapids, or in the hearts and minds of pilgrims, pioneers and, of course, poets.

Notes:

"A porcepic book".

Poems.

ISBN:

0888784120 :

OCLC:

44405549