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Finalist ASLE Book Awards 2019 * Jury Selection Le Grand Prix du livre de Montréal 2019 * Shortlist Inaugural Nelson Ball PrizeInviting, human, capacious poems that grapple with ideas while also lightly grieving our capacity for ruin.Yellow Crane, Susan Gillis's fourth collection of poetry, is a book of many views, many voices. A long look at the changing landscape of a Montreal neighbourhood becomes at onc ... Full description
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Description
Finalist ASLE Book Awards 2019 * Jury Selection Le Grand Prix du livre de Montréal 2019 * Shortlist Inaugural Nelson Ball Prize
Inviting, human, capacious poems that grapple with ideas while also lightly grieving our capacity for ruin.
Yellow Crane, Susan Gillis's fourth collection of poetry, is a book of many views, many voices. A long look at the changing landscape of a Montreal neighbourhood becomes at once a lament and a love poem. A sequence of poems inspired by Japanese tanka take on the cultural weather, core-drilling into the contradictions and uncertainties of the everyday. Writers, artists, thinkers, cooks, and others congregate in a hammock on the edge of a hayfield to compare notes on what we value. A bear turns up on a path near a quarry.
The poems of Yellow Crane study, with a lover's tender yet critical eye, the world we occupy and the way we occupy it: art, industry, environments both built and natural; the simultaneous flux and agelessness of our daily habits; the long human story of appropriation of wilderness; the fragility, resilience, and questionable worth of what we make, especially under political, economic, and social pressures; concern about our changing times; grief over what we leave behind.
This is a book that argues with itself, then rests. At once precise and loose, wise and nimble, it will make you both feel and think - and care about the world along with it.
We know the tree stands for promise
and for the desire, which comes much later, for atonement.
We stand at the west-facing window
and let the buildings opposite turn gold, then back to brick.
(from "Morning Light")
More Information
| Author | Susan Gillis |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Brick Books |
| Release year | 2018 |
| Cover type | Softcover |
| EAN | 9781771314916 |