A fierce and tumultuous joy : poems, new and selected / David Adams Richards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richards, David Adams, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections (2022)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--21st century.

Canadian poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

128 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia, Canada : Pottersfield Press, [2022]

Summary:

"In this collection of deeply personal poetry, David Adams Richards offers readers both his searing observations of and profound sympathy for those he writes of, be they his own family or animals, like the "dry doe" who will soon be at the mercy of the coyotes. He captures the soul of winter in a crisp, evocative description: it is a time when "the snow begins to fall at four, / And a dead cold has entered in the bones." Equally, though differently, captured is a snapshot of life at fourteen, when he and his friends were "Young lonesome firebrands / Cigarettes aglow in the summer weather." Here, too, are indictments of war and comments on Catholicism and faith, as well as retrospective examinations of his own past, of past relationships, and moments lost in time. Richards comments unflinchingly on the poet's life (the poet as soldier, as gunslinger), of his origins in Newcastle, New Brunswick, and his love for Peg at seventeen. In each poem, he crafts a vision and carefully cradles emotion in his writer's hands for the reader to feel and hold themselves. Ultimately, Richards assures us, our soul will be free and will "sing for eternity." David Adams Richards is a novelist, short fiction writer, memoirist, essayist, poet, playwright, and screenwriter, known for his fictionalized accounts of life in his native region of Miramichi, New Brunswick. He is one of only three writers to have won the Governor General's Award in both the fiction and nonfiction categories. In his acclaimed career, he has also won the Giller Prize and two Gemini Awards, and is a Member of the Order of New Brunswick and the Order of Canada. He was appointed to the Senate in 2017."-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Richards, David Adams. Poems. Selections (2022) Fierce and tumultuous joy.

ISBN:

9781989725955

1989725953

OCLC:

1302867558

Publisher Number:

99993602250