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The essential Margaret Avison / selected by Robyn Sarah.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Avison, Margaret, 1918-2007.
- Series:
- Essential poets (Erin, Ont.) ; 6.
- Essential Poets ; 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Love poetry, American.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (67 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- [Erin, Ontario] : The Porcupine's Quill, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is the sixth volume in The Porcupines Quill's Essential Poets series. The Essential Margaret Avison provides an excellent introduction to this distinguished Canadian poet and the evolution of her work, tracing her movement from skeptical intellectual to committed Christian. Robyn Sarah's selections illustrate Avison's diverse styles and forms, her striking diction, metaphoric and tonal complexities, and unique perspective. Sarah describes how Avison's work became more and more a poetry of inquiry, an inner pondering of her daily givens', in which the poet's experience of the worldly and the transcendent are inextricably tied.
- Contents:
- Always now: the collected poems (volume 1)
- The butterfly
- Winter sun
- Snow
- Jonathan, O Jonathan
- The world still needs
- All fool's eve
- Hiatus
- November 23
- New year's poem
- The swimmer's moment
- September street
- Watershed
- Thaw
- Mordent for a melody
- Always now: the collected poems (volume 1)
- The typographer's ornate symbol
- The dumbfounding
- Pace
- Twilight
- In a season of unemployment
- July man
- A nameless one
- Many as two
- A story
- sunblue
- Oughtiness ousted
- Hid life
- Slow advent
- Released flow
- Cement worker on a hot day
- Scar-face
- A lament
- No time
- Noted, foundered
- Power
- Loss
- Crowd corralling
- Not yet but still
- Lit sky and foundered earth
- Poring
- Concrete and wild carrot
- Balancing out
- Always now: the collected poems (volume 3)
- Sad song
- Momentary dark
- Finished when unfinished
- Prayer of anticipation
- En route
- Poetry is
- Listening : last poems
- Still life
- Metamorphosis
- Safe but shaky.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-123-22926-0
- OCLC:
- 795908180
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