The Resumption Of Play

byGary Geddes

March 1, 2016|
The Resumption Of Play by Gary Geddes
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The gripping title poem of The Resumption of Play, which won the 2015 Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, dramatizes the traumatic experience and enduring legacy of Canada''s Indian residential schools. The book is also about coming to terms with grief and loss, including a special elegiac sequence about the poet''s mother, dead at age 35, and another about Pound, Brodsky, Stravinsky and Diaghelev called "On Being Dead in Venice." This exciting new cornucopia from one of Canada''s premier poets also includes two prison letters from Somalia and lyrics about Virginia Woolf, Bronwen Wallace, misogyny, obstacles to belief, and the healing power of poetry.
Gary Geddes has written and edited more than 45 books of poetry, fiction, drama, non-fiction, criticism, translation and anthologies and won more than a dozen national and international literary awards, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Americas Region), the Lt.-Governor''s Award for Literary Excellence and the Gabriela Mistral ...
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Title:The Resumption Of Play
Format:Paperback
Product dimensions:80 pages, 8.5 X 5.25 X 0 in
Shipping dimensions:80 pages, 8.5 X 5.25 X 0 in
Published:March 1, 2016
Publisher:Quattro Books
Language:English
Appropriate for ages:All ages
ISBN - 13:9781927443873

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