Forty-One Pages

On Poetry, Language, and Wilderness

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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In this series of elegant and wide-ranging meditations on language, wilderness, poetry, and technocracy, John Steffler takes us on a guided tour of one poet's mental workshop. His focus is vividly personal, shaped by his interests and experience, and at the same time universal. What is it to be human? Steffler is not afraid to be provocative, but he is also compassionately alert to moral, political, and cultural complexity. This is a book that will convince you that poetry can indeed make a great deal happen.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-03-16
Mått140 x 216 x 13 mm
Vikt180 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieOskana Poetry & Poetics
Antal sidor136
FörlagUniversity of Regina Press
ISBN9780889775879

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John Steffler was born in Ontario but, since 1975, has lived in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, where he teaches at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College. His novel, The Afterlife of George Cartwright (M&S), won the Smithbooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Thomas Raddall Award, and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book. That Night We Were Ravenous (M&S 1998) won the Atlantic Poetry Prize.

Praise for previous work: "One of our finest lyric poets." Ken Babstock "John Steffler is Canada's most sensuously passionate writer. Reading him, we are put in touch with the pure erotic draw which the world exercises on him. The acuity of his perception, and the size of his heart, make his poems an essential part of our literature." Don McKay "Steffler's persona is a diviner, seeking out the ancient energies of the natural world, the atavistic source." Mary Dalton