Hour's Acropolis - Couverture souple

Pass, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1550170430 ISBN 13 : 9781550170436

Editeur : Harbour Publishing, 1991

Synopsis

The Hour's Acropolis, John Pass's tenth book of poetry, is a classical meditation rebounding between domesticity and myth. Ben Johnson's Olympic disgrace is counterpoint to poetry's inspirational lightning, Steve Fonyo appears next to Odysseus, Orpheus listens to Lou Reed.

Stylistically, this book is a complex and ingenious construct, a poetic acropolis posing as a deconstruction of a one-page introductory thematic motif poem. A pair of sonnets address each other over the heads of intervening poems. A haiku sequence, acknowledging influences beyond the European, is called upon to perform the very western task of narrating a storm. Pass's virtuosity, his technical and intellectual brilliance (Canadian Literature) offer shelter and welcoming affection in love poems like, Delicious, Quibble and Our Daring.

The poems in The Hour's Acropolis are the work of a mature poet with a range, ability and intelligence rarely seen in contemporary poetry. John Pass is one of a small group of writers who belong to no identifiable school of fashion but who works in a steadfast faith to the shining moments, the wild light alive in the fibers striving.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Pass's poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies in Canada, the US, the UK, Ireland and the Czech Republic. He is the author of nineteen books and chapbooks, most notably the quartet AT LARGE, comprised of The Hour's Acropolis (Harbour, 1991), Radical Innocence (Harbour, 1994), Water Stair (Oolichan Books, 2000)--shortlisted for the Governor General's Award--and Stumbling in the Bloom (Oolichan Books, 2005)--winner of the Governor General's Award. His most recent collection, crawlspace, published by Harbour in 2011, won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2012. He lives with his wife, writer Theresa Kishkan, near Sakinaw Lake on BC's Sunshine Coast.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harbour Publishing
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1550170430
• ISBN 13: 9781550170436
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 88
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Allemagne