Reconciliation / Adam Getty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Getty, Adam.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

80 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Roberts Creek, B.C. : Nightwood Editions, 2003.

Summary:

In poems that are both world-weary yet suffused with a moral force, Adam Getty gives us the perspective of the common man, but gives it in an uncommon voice -- a voice of quiet, contemplative directness tinged with the fierce integrity of one who has lived the experience. "Reconciliation," Adam Getty' s first book-length collection of poems, is a work of astounding maturity and depth. In poems of uncompromising honesty and gritty realism, he captures the experiences of hardworking industrial labourers, poor families and the homeless, and grapples not only with the physical toll of such lives but also with the internal conflicts that arise under such demanding conditions. Getty' s vision does not end at the realism of the Hot Mill and the slaughterhouse -- there is a visionary quality to these tough, visceral poems that intimates a staunchly held belief in something more than the physical trials one must endure through life. In the tradition of People' s Poetry, but with an added mystical dimension impressively realized, Adam Getty renders in poems both stark and vivid the human spirit that rises above, and sometimes falls beneath, the weight of life' s circumstances.

Contents:

Sonnets for Red Hill Creek 11

Steeltown 19

Coming Home 20

Gainful Employment 22

Knife Work 24

Blue Ontario 26

Srebrenica, 1992 28

A Letter from Svidrigailov 30

Tikkun 31

Find Me Where the Sun Streams Through 35

Creeping Things 36

A Passage Rejected by Shakespeare 37

Growth 38

On the Laughter of Children 39

Mornings 40

The Potter 42

Against My Skin 45

The Royal Botanical Gardens 49

In Your Voice 51

Sunset Winds 53

The Voyage Out 54

On Amsterdam Avenue 56

Torn 58

The Old German Woman 60

Tin Cup 61

Occam's Razor 62

Unpainted 64

Night View 66

Yellow Grass 69

Leavetaking 70

Mama 72

To the Dead Sea 73

Sophia 74

Reconciliation 76

The Maid of the Mist 78.

Notes:

Poems.

"A junction book".

ISBN:

0889711879

OCLC:

51582312