George Bowering has always maintained many of his poems are germinated in secret ways--secrets he has, until now, assiduously kept to himself. In suddenly giving most of those secrets away, Vermeer's Light , much of it written while Bowering was "in office" as Canada's first poet laureate, constitutes an extraordinary gesture of generosity from a poet to his readership who has so honoured him. Its alphabet series A, You're Adorable , by "Ellen Field," a pseudonym Bowering often used in the nineties; Imaginary Poems for ...
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George Bowering has always maintained many of his poems are germinated in secret ways--secrets he has, until now, assiduously kept to himself. In suddenly giving most of those secrets away, Vermeer's Light , much of it written while Bowering was "in office" as Canada's first poet laureate, constitutes an extraordinary gesture of generosity from a poet to his readership who has so honoured him. Its alphabet series A, You're Adorable , by "Ellen Field," a pseudonym Bowering often used in the nineties; Imaginary Poems for AMB , addressed to his late wife Angela; He Is Not , a micro-translation of Shelley's Adonais; Q&A , which dares to take on the most fundamental questions of the human condition with levelheaded honesty and wit--the list of revelations and the pyrotechnics of Bowering's craft presented here are spellbinding. But the greatest astonishment about this celebratory collection from a poet at the height of his powers is that it contains all eight variations of "Grandfather," Bowering's most anthologized poem to date, set into an essay, Rewriting My Grandfather , like eight jewels in a crown at the end of the book. It is here that the poet presents his readers with a voyage of discovery; that the buried treasure of his invisible but adamantine craft is to be found; and the gift of entrance into how George Bowering creates his work is revealed.
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) First Printing stated on verso of title page; signed by George Bowering on the title page with no inscription; minor edge wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy in collectable condition; dust jacket is protected by a Brodart sleeve.
