The Address Book: Poems

The Address Book: Poems
ISBN-10
088784698X
ISBN-13
9780887846984
Series
The Address Book
Category
Poetry / General
Pages
83
Language
English
Published
2004
Publisher
House of Anansi Press
Author
Steven Heighton

Description

Governor General's Award-finalist Steven Heighton employs his signature blend of emotional fierceness and linguistic beauty to tap into "This whim / against what drifts to dark." The Address Book is a collection of remarkably well-crafted love letters, letters of loss, and lyrical moments of complaint and redress where music and intelligence are the last guard against wind walls of real grief. Elegiac, angry, tender, and brazenly heart-felt, these poems achieve their effect through total conviction; a complete immersion in the rich palette of human emotions -- comfortable and otherwise. The collection's second half includes the author's versions from Western poetry's sustaining giants, including Beaudelaire, Rimbaud, Sappho, Catullus, Homer, and Rilke.

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