Hymn Contributor(s): Barton, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1894078764 ISBN-13: 9781894078764 Publisher: Brick Books OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2009 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian |
Dewey: 811.54 |
Physical Information: 0.43" H x 6.3" W x 8.64" (0.55 lbs) 144 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A journey in search of love through the contemporary homoerotic male body. Improvising on a variety of poetic forms and traversing disparate landscapes -- from Belfast to the clear-cuts of Vancouver Island, from the subterranean heat of Jules Verne's Iceland to the ventriloquism of the Alberta Rockies' echoing eastern slopes -- John Barton documents the path of the male body in the search for love in an increasingly unstable, supposedly tolerant contemporary world. Hymn, stokes the fires of homoerotic romantic love with its polar extremes of intimacy and solitude. ... though he files all forethought of the unknown life now going on without him, a life he confuses with his own, his life promiscuous distractions of the body portentous in his downfall, the downfall the accidental man come between them, the man he may yet become -- from Hymn |
Contributor Bio(s): Barton, John: - John Barton's books include HYMN, Great Men, Designs from the Interior, Sweet Ellipsis, and Hypothesis. West of Darkness: Emily Carr, a self-portrait, his acclaimed third book, was republished in a bilingual edition in 2006. Co-editor of Seminal: The Anthology of Canada's Gay Male Poets, he lives in Victoria. Barton edits The Malahat Review. |