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Answer to Blue - Softcover

Thornton, Russell

 
9781550179675: Answer to Blue
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1550179675 ISBN 13: 9781550179675
Verlag: Harbour Publishing, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

A masterful new collection by award-winning poet Russell Thornton.

In “Greek Fire,” one of the poems in Russell Thornton’s astonishing new collection, the central image is of fire burning through water: “water is a bridge / for a fire to come into the world.” This image also illuminates the driving force that animates the poems in Answer to Blue. The stillness and quiet depth characteristic of Thornton’s poetry are here shot through with an irresistible vitality, a flame of mythic resonance.

The past, both ancient and recent, exerts a gravitational pull throughout the collection, with Greek myths, family histories and biblical passages unearthed and examined, forgotten and returned to, giving way in a cyclical rhythm to the transient presence of young children and the death of a parent. With a clarity that pierces through the mist of daily routine, Thornton gives attention to transitional states, pausing at the often rushed-through moments of change, and also examines the phenomenon of perception itself.

This collection’s response to D.H. Lawrence’s question―“Oh what in you can answer to this blueness?”―is both an answer and a challenge, an achievement of beauty that contains the seed of something more enduring and sacred.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Russell Thornton’s collection The Hundred Lives (Quattro Books, 2014) was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. His Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain (Harbour Publishing, 2013) was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, the Raymond Souster Award and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. His other titles include The Fifth Window (Thistledown Press, 2000), A Tunisian Notebook (Seraphim Editions, 2002), House Built of Rain (Harbour Publishing, 2003; shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the ReLit Award for poetry), The Human Shore and The Broken Face (Harbour Publishing, 2006 and 2018). His most recent collection is Answer to Blue (Harbour Publishing, 2021). Thornton’s poetry has appeared in several anthologies and as part of BC’s Poetry in Transit. He lives in North Vancouver, BC.

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Verlag
Harbour Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1550179675
ISBN 13 
9781550179675
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
128
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