Bridestones / Miranda Pearson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pearson, Miranda, author.

Series:

Hugh MacLennan poetry series

The Hugh MacLennan poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--21st century.

Canadian poetry.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry

Poetry.

Physical Description:

ix, 100 pages ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"The early elegiac poems in Bridestones emerge from the borderlands between life and death, loss and renewal. Drawing on dreams, opera and visual art, and employing symbolist and playfully surreal imagery, Miranda Pearson questions the ways we tend and grieve - for each other and our environment. Beginning with a sudden bereavement, the first section ends with a long poem, "Clearance," that depicts the experience of emptying and departing a home - the physicality of a house serving as a vehicle for processing grief. Pearson writes on family trauma, illness, love, and desire with a pervading sense of haunted-ness, compressed, lyrical accounts of complex and ambivalent terrain. The impact of a pandemic lurking in the backdrop, themes of fear run through much of this collection, with poems exploring how we face our fears - or deny and avoid them - and, ultimately, how we grow and adapt. Through meditations on art, myth, archaeology, ceremony and death, Pearson reveals the veil between life and death when drawn to its thinnest. Like the hovering falcon depicted in "Song of Roses," the poems view the world from above: "if earth is body, and sky--God help us, spirit." Miranda Pearson has taught at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. Bridestones is her sixth book of poetry. Her previous collections include Rail and The Fire Extinguisher. She lives between England and Canada."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Poems.

Other Format:

Online version: Pearson, Miranda. Bridestones.

ISBN:

9780228020776

0228020778

OCLC:

1409586464