| Words for Trees Contributor(s): Folkart, Barbara (Author) |
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ISBN: 0888784368 ISBN-13: 9780888784360 Publisher: Dundurn Press OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2007 Annotation: Strolling through the groves and glens of Barbara Folkart's tactile visions, the reader dallies with Monet and Manet for an imagined dejeuner sur l'herbe, ponders the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, perambulates meadows frequented by Parsifal, and finger-pops to the syncopation of a soundtrack for tulips. Quiet regret figures in many poems, but also transcendence over old hurts that never heal. In the end, these are words not just for trees, but also for humans. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian - Nature - Poetry | Australian & Oceanian |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2005412211 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.5" W x 8" (0.45 lbs) 152 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this Ottawa writer's first volume of verse, there are trees, of coursecatalpas on stained-glass transoms, an ever-present crabappel, nameless species in whose bare branches the winter solstice lurks. There is music, tooawhorehouse tango, a string quartet enthralling a favourite cat, the silky caress of a clarinet along the remembered flesh of adolescence. And visual art, from the Middle Ages through Matisse, is reenacted in vignettes of desire or dereliction. |
Contributor Bio(s): Folkart, Barbara: - Barbara Folkart has lived in Germany, France, England, and Italy, worked at the Harvard and Paris Observatories, and received a Ph.D. in medieval French literature. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Arc, The Antigonish Review, Descant, The Malahat Review, Event, and Thumbscrew. Currently she lives in Canada's capital where she teaches translation studies at the University of Ottawa. |