| Upsidoon: New Poems Contributor(s): Nash, Roger (Author) |
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ISBN: 1896350666 ISBN-13: 9781896350660 Publisher: Your Scrivener Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2014 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Canadian |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.30 lbs) 90 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In "Upsidoon," lyrical poems are at play with the rhythms of regular speech. Opening poems savour the rich feel of everyday events (taking a shower, making coffee, having a sauna), pulling them back from being routinized. Then there is a move to poems that explore the span of experiences we can have over a lifetime, and what sort of patterns--and lives--these make. Other poems track our changing, often conflicting, relations to nature, from agricultural to industrial to climate-change perspectives. A last group of poems looks hard at what often seems beyond our control today--in wars, in civil unrest, in accidents--and seeks ways to say "yes " to life in the midst of these. |