| Description |
1 online resource (58 pages) |
| Series |
Laurier poetry series |
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Laurier poetry series.
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| Contents |
Introduction : song for the song of the dogged birdwatcher / Meira Cook -- Down river, into the camp -- At the long sault parkway -- The great blue heron -- The eye meets Tom Thomson's "A rapid" -- The trout -- August -- Lependu nearly materialized by his blackbirds -- Field marks -- Leaving -- The boy's own guide to dream birds -- I scream you scream -- Adagio for a fallen sparrow -- Field marks (2) -- Identification -- VIA, eastbound -- Buckling -- Some functions of a leaf -- How to imagine an albatross -- From Black spruce -- Another theory of dusk -- Meditation on a geode -- Choosing the bow -- Meditation on shovels -- Poplar -- Early instruments -- Twinflower -- Alibi -- Materiel : (i) the man from nod -- Materiel : (ii) fates worse than death -- Setting the table : (i) knife -- Setting the table : (ii) fork -- Setting the table : (iii) spoon -- Sometimes a voice (1) -- Load -- Luna moth meditation -- Hush factor -- Sometimes a voice (2) -- Astonished -- -- Afterword : the shell of the tortoise / Don McKay |
| Summary |
This volume features thirty-five of Don McKays best poems, which are selected with a contextualising introduction by Mira Cook that probes wilderness and representation in McKay, and the canny, quirky, thoughtful, and sometimes comic self-consciousness the poems adumbrate. Included is McKay's afterword written especially for this volume in which McKay reflects on his own writing process -- its relationship to the earth and to metamorphosis |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
McKay, Don, 1942-
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| SUBJECT |
McKay, Don, 1942- fast |
| Subject |
Canadian poetry.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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Canadian poetry
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| Genre/Form |
poetry.
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Poetry
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cook, Méira, 1964-
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| ISBN |
142378555X |
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9781423785552 |
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1280465670 |
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9781280465673 |
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0889204942 |
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9780889204942 |
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9781554580804 |
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1554580803 |
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9781554586585 |
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1554586585 |
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