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Rank songbirds / Leon Rooke.
Van Pelt Library PS3568.O6 R36 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rooke, Leon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canadian poetry--21st century.
- Canadian poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 78 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Erin, Ontario : The Porcupine's Quill, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Leon Rooke's Rank Songbirds delves into dramatic and intense relationships, politics and the quirks of society, celebrating humanity's resilience in spite of--or perhaps because of--its flaws. 'Songbirds, Leon Rooke deploys his considerable wit and his signature whimsy to explore the joys and the burdens, the hilarities and the anxieties of modern life. These are poems that revel in a piercing look at foibles, saucy verbal sparring and the possibilities of artistic expression while recognizing the fallibility of humanity, with its voracious appetites, its complicit silences, its convoluted politics. And though it may be that 'Those angels serenading us through / Hazardous night were rank songbirds chirping away / Mindless of hawks zooming overhead,' these poems remind us that today isn't last week's curse, that freedom is getting the high notes right and that, in a pinch, one might 'apply love's bandage to the shattered heart / This minute pooling blood about your feet"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Rooke, Leon. Rank songbirds.
- ISBN:
- 9780889844483
- 0889844488
- OCLC:
- 1264212402
- Publisher Number:
- 99993474513
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