Glass Float - Couverture souple

Munro, Jane

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1771315245 ISBN 13 : 9781771315241

Editeur : Brick Books, 2020

Synopsis

Griffin Award-winner returns with new poems that are spacious with interiority, alive with a hard-earned lightness.

Waves carried a glass float--designed to hold up a fishing net--across the Pacific. Beached it safely. Someone's breath is inside it.

In Glass Float, her seventh collection, award-winning poet Jane Munro considers the widening of horizons that border and shape our lives, the familiarity and mystery of conscious experience, and the deepening awareness that comes with a dedicated practice such as yoga. This book is about connections: mind and body; self and others; physical and metaphysical; art and nature; west and east, north and south.

In "Convexities," the book's opening poem, Munro quotes the grandfather who taught her to paint: "art is suggestion; art is not representation." No concavities, he said. Only the "little hummocks" that her pencil outlined as she did contour drawings. Munro's deft suggestion, her tracing of convexities, conveys underlying complexities, not by explication, but by looking with eyes and heart open to where mysteries almost surface.

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bubbles
says the baby, looking
out the window at snowflakes

the old man tears up

two
characteristics
of the human animal--
to speak, to weep

both
move me
are you moved
by words--by tears

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jane Munro's sixth poetry collection BLUE SONOMA (Brick Books,2014) won the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize. Her most recent collection is GLASS FLOAT (Brick Books, 2020). A member of the collaborative poetry group Yoko's Dogs, she's been a professor of Creative Writing at several universities in British Columbia, taught many informal writing workshops, and read her poetry to audiences across Canada. For more than 20 years, she has studied (in Canada and India) and practiced Iyengar Yoga. In 2012, she moved back to Vancouver--where she grew up and raised her children--after spending 20 years living rurally on the coast of Vancouver Island.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brick Books
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1771315245
• ISBN 13: 9781771315241
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 83
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• Personne responsable: non disponible