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Brickle, nish, and knobbly : a Newfoundland treasury of terms for ice and snow / Marlene Creates.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Creates, Marlene, author, photographer.
- Series:
- Surreality
- Surreality ; v.1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ice--Poetry.
- Ice.
- Snow--Poetry.
- Snow.
- Winter--Poetry.
- Winter.
- Rivers--Poetry.
- Rivers.
- Ice--Pictorial works.
- Snow--Pictorial works.
- Winter--Pictorial works.
- Rivers--Pictorial works.
- Photography, Artistic.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (153 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2015
- Place of Publication:
- Portugal Cove-St. Philip's, Newfoundland and Labrador : Boulder Publications, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this adaptation from Creates's award-winning video, a series of photographs and prose poems of a river's seasonal changes are observed and recorded by means of 80 named varieties of ice, snow, and winter weather in the Newfoundland dialect. These terms are precise, practical, evocative, sonic, and lyrical.
- Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Notice""; ""Contents""; ""Author�s Note""; ""From the Ground Tier to a Sparrow Batch""; ""Sea Ice, Conception Bay""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Biographical Note""
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-927099-61-7
- OCLC:
- 913977406
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