Cold Panes of Surfaces - Couverture souple

Banks, Chris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0889712220 ISBN 13 : 9780889712225

Editeur : Nightwood Editions, 2007

Synopsis

The Cold Panes of Surfaces is the moving second collection of poems from award-winning author Chris Banks.

Rooted in the pastoral tradition of Wordsworth, Frost and Wallace Stevens, The Cold Panes of Surfaces describes the Southern Ontario landscape of trains, lakes, moose and pine with unflinchingly sharp image and metaphor. In so doing, he brings to it a distinctly modern edge, meditating on the rent we are paying to the planet for our waning lives. Here, beetles become child kamikazes... a wallpaper of yellow-winged flames and the planet is a Museum of Natural Beauty.

Banks takes imaginative leaps into the worlds of a magician's assistant, a fifteenth-century Japanese poet, and the Muse. Most of all, these poems eloquently describe childhood, loss in all its forms, the vagaries of relationships, and being a sullen young man / caught in the world's fist.

The Cold Panes of Surfaces is a remarkable collection, and a fitting follow-up to Banks' award-winning first book Bonfires.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Raised in the Ontario communities of Bancroft, Sioux Lookout and Stayner, where his father served postings as a small-town police officer, Chris Banks took his BA at the University of Guelph, a Master's in Creative Writing at Concordia and an education degree at Western. He currently works as an English and Creative Writing instructor at Bluevale Collegiate Institute in Waterloo, Ontario. His poetry has previously appeared in the Literary Review of Canada, Carousel and The Antigonish Review.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nightwood Editions
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0889712220
• ISBN 13: 9780889712225
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 76
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Allemagne