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The Essential Margaret Avison
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CA$12.95
ISBN: 9780889843332
Pub Date: November 2010
Imprint: Porcupine's Quill
The sixth volume of the Porcupine Quill's acclaimed series of `Essential Poets,' this collection provides an excellent introduction to this prominent Canadian poet and the evolution of her work. Robyn Sarah's selections amply celebrate Avison's diverse styles and forms, and reveal Avison's unique perspective on and response to her world.
Here, one can experience Avison's dazzling diction (``a saucepantilt of water,'' ``birds clotted in big trees''), her metaphoric and tonal complexities, and her quiet examination of the world in which she lived. The Essential Margaret Avison also traces her movement from skeptical intellectual to committed Christian. Though some scholars have dismissed her later religious poetry as simplistic and inferior to her earlier work, the truth is more complex, and the line between what is religious and what is not in Avison's poetry is difficult to draw. Robyn Sarah describes how Avison's work became ``more and more a poetry of inquiry, an...
The Essential Margaret Avison
CA$12.95
ISBN: 9780889843332
Pub Date: November 2010
Imprint: Porcupine's Quill
The sixth volume of the Porcupine Quill's acclaimed series of `Essential Poets,' this collection provides an excellent introduction to this prominent Canadian poet and the evolution of her work. Robyn Sarah's selections amply celebrate Avison's diverse styles and forms, and reveal Avison's unique perspective on and response to her world.
Here, one can experience Avison's dazzling diction (``a saucepantilt of water,'' ``birds clotted in big trees''), her metaphoric and tonal complexities, and her quiet examination of the world in which she lived. The Essential Margaret Avison also traces her movement from skeptical intellectual to committed Christian. Though some scholars have dismissed her later religious poetry as simplistic and inferior to her earlier work, the truth is more complex, and the line between what is religious and what is not in Avison's poetry is difficult to draw. Robyn Sarah describes how Avison's work became ``more and more a poetry of inquiry, an...