The Secret Signature of Things - Couverture souple

Joseph, Eve

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1894078810 ISBN 13 : 9781894078818

Editeur : Brick Books, 2010

Synopsis

Shortlisted 2010 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize * Shortlisted 2011 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

Much of this poised and luminous book is rooted in an idea of epiphany, an aesthetics of everyday incarnation; not the sudden and profound manifestation of essence or meaning, but the smaller steps taken toward it. The moments in which, as Joyce writes, "the soul of the commonest object ... seems to us radiant." If epiphanies are for theologians, perhaps the little steps towards them are for poets like Eve Joseph, and for all of us who attempt to see beyond the names we give things to the names they give themselves.

The rubber plant in the hospital cafeteria is waiting for rain. Palms up beneath a sky of fluorescent lights, its leaves are broad enough to be roof, temporary shelter, shade to small creatures caught in the open. The hiker, for instance, who has made a fire with wet twigs and hunkers down to wait it out under his wide blue tarpaulin.

- from "Shelter"

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Eve Joseph grew up in North Vancouver. As a young woman she traveled widely before moving to Victoria where she now lives with her family. Her first book, The Startled Heart, was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Award.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brick Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1894078810
• ISBN 13: 9781894078818
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
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