| What Really Matters: Volume 7 Contributor(s): O'Grady, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0773519068 ISBN-13: 9780773519060 Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2000 Annotation: Summers we'd give thanks to be city born and bred when, come mid-August, our country cousins trudged two weeks ahead to the stern task of learning, the clean-cut drudgery of school. Of course, in October we'd curse the luck that gave them a fortnight repeal of break-knuckle rules -- though what could be worse than digging potatoes in muck-caked fields? Who, in their right minds, would envy that chore, and pray -- in late November, a thousand miles and many years away -- to restore themselves by the grace of clay-coated hands? Elbow-deep in a sack of unscrubbed spuds, we swear never to wash off that red mud. "These are the clean, contained poems of a true poet. Again and again, with seeming effortlessness, they strike a perfect balance between straightforwardness and elegance. Their range is vast, their knowledge deep". Mark Strand, former U.S. Poet Laureate "Like the young man pedalling downhill at breakneck speed with a brass trumpet under his arm, Thomas O'Grady's poems tread a balance between disaster and ecstasy, homesickness and sanctuary, elegy and high comedy. His great blue herons, blazing schooners, and children playing dice connect the wilderness to the human heart. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2001369751 |
| Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 5.01" W x 7.48" (0.20 lbs) 124 pages |