| A House in Memory: Last Poemsvolume 52 Contributor(s): Helwig, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0228001250 ISBN-13: 9780228001256 Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 4.8" W x 7.5" (0.44 lbs) 168 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: the language of the waterway / the name / the train's route through bliss / to When the poet and novelist David Helwig - a recipient of the Matt Cohen Prize for lifetime achievement and a member of the Order of Canada - died in October 2018, he left behind a substantial catalogue of unpublished work. A House in Memory, a selection of Helwig's last poems, was assembled by his daughter, Maggie. It shows an author still at the height of his powers, creating work in complex formal structures, contemplating mortality, memory, and the landscape of his adopted home of Prince Edward Island, and paying tribute to his literary predecessors. The collection also includes unpublished poems from earlier in Helwig's career. Ranging widely through time, space, and literary tradition, A House in Memory features some deeply personal poems. As Maggie Helwig says of her father, he could not cease to be a poet as long as he had breath in this world. |