ISBN: 9780888784124 - parable beach (3 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 120 pages. 8.20x5.26x0.30 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Whether speaking in the voices of seventeenth-century French fur trader Pierre Radisson, nineteenth-century British explorer David Thompson, or settler Thomas Scott, the man Louis Riel executed during the Red River Rebellion, Paddy McCallum has an uncanny ability to conjure the slap of a birchbark canoe through northern waters, the sting of 'salt-packed/logs set free from boom/and blade and fire,' and the scent of reindeer moss, cranberry, and moose scat. Metamorphosis reigns in McCallum's universe. A traveller becomes a gargoyle in an Italian piazza, a man may or may not be a marauding badger stalking prey in a dark forest, a woman's face, so her lover fancies, becomes 'a crude/map, an island where her hair falls,/grows over centuries into coral sea.' In McCallum's vision, parables are to be found everywhere: in granite, in the roar of unseen rapids, in one of those glass floats anyone might find on a beach, or in the hearts and minds of pilgrims, pioneers and, of course, poets.…

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnPaddy McCallum s poems have been published in Arc, Grain, Canadian Literature, PRISM international, Descant, The Dalhousie Review, Event, Queen s Quarterly, The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, and The Fiddlehead. His.