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The White Light of Tomorrow / Russell Thornton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thornton, Russell, 1942- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature.
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (83 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd., [2023]
- Summary:
- "A masterful new collection from award-winning poet Russell Thornton. With intense lyricism, Thornton records his imaginative movement between the element of water, waking to "the aloneness of water," and the phenomenon of light, comprehending "light" as "fate" and "love" as "memory of light." In the process, Thornton highlights how hard lives can manifest beauty, affirmation. A mother transcends degrading circumstances through laughter. A long-lost father's drafting set case is a "coffin," its tools a "skeleton"; his "ashes are buried" in the poet's "arm." Revelations of nature abound. Thornton's rainy locale lifts onto the mythical level, water "wrapping around" him, "holding" him "complete / as within womb water about to break." Herons' wings "span the countless characters" of a creek; a butterfly folds and unfolds "light / like white origami." A description of an ancient BC site is a rapt engagement with Indigenous petroglyphs. An exploration of a Song of Songs passage details "light ... one with turns of the yarn" of a shawl, "a touch within a touch." Classical myth informs a poem about a power outage; the speaker enters "the elsewhere of the night" to build a fire. Passionate, moving, this collection marks a fine advance in Thornton's expanding poetic output."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half Title Page
- Also by Russell Thornton
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- I
- A Sheet Metal Sink
- The Sea Wolf in the Stone
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- Description
- Galleries
- Moon
- Woolco
- Memoir
- Coffee Cup Stain
- The Balmoral
- Blackouts
- Light
- Voice
- An Old New Zealand Five-Pound Note
- The Draftsman's Wound
- The Fraser Arms
- Shoes
- My Mother's Laughter
- My Father's Beard
- Ruin
- Nightstand
- Gesture
- A Dance
- Shawl
- Hibiscus
- Prophecy
- Henna
- Names
- The Field
- Snow
- The Name of the Creek
- Mist
- Delivery
- Summer Morning
- Hummingbird in that Second
- Play Structure
- Peter's Ice Cream
- Note on My Father and Alchemy
- Power
- Level
- A Corpse
- A Coat
- They Wheel Me
- Streets of Snow
- Story
- The White Light of Tomorrow
- Colour
- Notes &
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Thornton, Russell The White Light of Tomorrow
- ISBN:
- 1-990776-54-X
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