| Gardens of the Interregnum Contributor(s): Sibum, Norm (Author) |
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ISBN: 1771963395 ISBN-13: 9781771963398 Publisher: Biblioasis OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Love & Erotica - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Family |
| LCCN: 2019458953 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.30 lbs) 72 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian - Holiday - Valentine's Day - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Norm Sibum's poems are field notes from the end of empire, a satirist's barbs, verse letters from a poet to his enemies and friends. He proceeds with reverent disillusionment (no one and nothing let off the hook), not so much along the streets of Montreal or Washington or Rome as along an irregular tetrameter line, and then another, and then another: waves breaking on a beach; or a poet, in spite of or because of all odds, again embarking. This is not a world in which there is comfort--and yet there is comfort in the rhythms. One must learn to read them aloud (to misquote Chesterton), without ever trusting them. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sibum, Norm: - Born in Oberammergau in 1947, Norm Sibum grew up in Germany, Alaska, Missouri, Utah, and Washington. He has been a Montréaler since 1994. Along with Bruce Serafin, he founded the Vancouver Review in 1989 and published several collections of poetry in Canada and in England with Carcanet Press. His Girls and Handsome Dogs ( Porcupine's Quill, 2002) won the Quebec Writer's Federation A.M. Klein Award for Poetry. The Pangborn Defence (Biblioasis, 2008) was short-listed for the same award. |