Isbn: 9781550179125 - watching a man break a dog’s back: poems for a dark time (7 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Watching a Man Break a Dog's Backexplores the question of how to live in a natural landscape that offers beauty while being consumed by industry, and in an economy that offers material benefits while denying dignity, meaning and a voice to many in order to satisfy the outsized appetites of the few.Acri de coeurfrom a poet who has long celebrated the voices of working people, the collection also grapples withwhy 'anyone, in this era so profoundly lacking in grace, might want to make poems-or any kind of art.' Butthe keen sense of justice that drives the collection is tempered by the poet's reluctance to take himself too seriously: 'Centuries without the benefit / of my presence / have to be made up for / by my words.'The poet brings the perspective of age to our current troubled existence, with the reminder that as a society and as individuals we've faced perilous times before, and that our shared mortality links us more than circumstances and politics divide us.…

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnTom Wayman s many titles with Harbour Publishing include Dirty Snow, which won the 2013 Acorn-Plantos Award, and My Father s Cup, shortlisted for the 2003 Governor General s Literary Award. In 2015 Way.

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