| Point No Point: Poems Contributor(s): Munro, Jane (Author) |
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ISBN: 0771066783 ISBN-13: 9780771066788 Publisher: McClelland & Stewart OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2006 Annotation: "Point No Point"'s title comes from a landform -- an actual point on the west coast of Vancouver Island, which seems, when approached from the other side, to be no point at all -- and it alerts us to the fact that Jane Munro's poems are situated in a deep sense. They live "in situ" in the way they inhabit their native place, intimate with its mists, its mosses and lichens, with the salmonberry and false lily-of-the-valley of their ecosystem. They are also situated temporally, evoking sharply etched memories, visions, and dreams: a real-time visit to her father's boatyard, a dream visit with her mother from a time before the poet was conceived, a flashback to the sixties rendered in extreme close-up. By their musical attunement and the acuity of the focus, they demonstrate how such deep situation may come about, how we might bring language to the task of living in a way which is fully present. In the long culminating poem, "Moving to a Colder Climate," Munro brings all these elements into play, summoning her father's bold obstreperous ghost to be present as a new house is built -- situated -- in this language. Her gifts as a poet -- acuity, candour, musicality -- make" Point No Point "a work of unforgettable witness. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian - Poetry | Women Authors - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.26" H x 5.9" W x 8.52" (0.29 lbs) 88 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Point No Point's title comes from a landform -- an actual point on the west coast of Vancouver Island, which seems, when approached from the other side, to be no point at all -- and it alerts us to the fact that Jane Munro's poems are situated in a deep sense. They live in situ in the way they inhabit their native place, intimate with its mists, its mosses and lichens, with the salmonberry and false lily-of-the-valley of their ecosystem. They are also situated temporally, evoking sharply etched memories, visions, and dreams: a real-time visit to her father's boatyard, a dream visit with her mother from a time before the poet was conceived, a flashback to the sixties rendered in extreme close-up. By their musical attunement and the acuity of the focus, they demonstrate how such deep situation may come about, how we might bring language to the task of living in a way which is fully present. In the long culminating poem, "Moving to a Colder Climate," Munro brings all these elements into play, summoning her father's bold obstreperous ghost to be present as a new house is built -- situated -- in this language. Her gifts as a poet -- acuity, candour, musicality -- make Point No Point a work of unforgettable witness. |
