| Whiteout: Poems Contributor(s): Murray, George (Author) |
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ISBN: 1770410872 ISBN-13: 9781770410879 Publisher: ECW Press OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 811.008 |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.25 lbs) 64 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Poetry that explores how accidental voyeurism can force reconsideration and reconciliation White-out: n. a surface condition ... in which no object casts a shadow, the horizon cannot be seen, and only dark objects are discernible ... Whiteout: when the heavy weather of daily life establishes the measure of the measureless; when the predatory nature of the accidental conjures cowboys and the comatose; when the sickly sweet pop of life underfoot contrasts the televised image, shrinking to a pinprick. Whiteout: calques and towers, twin polar storms, falling, burning. Whiteout: "a book of white nothing." George Murray's sixth collection has been a decade in the making. At once taut, tender and terrifying, haunted and haunting, Whiteout shatters convention in the collision of order and rage, formlessness and hard-won serenity. |