| Loop Contributor(s): Simpson, Anne (Author) |
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ISBN: 0771080751 ISBN-13: 9780771080753 Publisher: McClelland & Stewart OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2003 Annotation: "By the author of Light Falls Through You" and the novel Canterbury Beach In "Loop, Anne Simpson explores the power, and the anguish, of many different modes of return - retrieval, revision, the covering of old ground with eyes wider and thoughts reconditioned by difficult wisdom. These poems occur at that place where a focused, compassionate vision comes to inhabit language and to find the forms that will suffice: a Mobius strip poem that loops back on itself; a crown of sonnets that take us back to the shock and grief of the twin towers and find deep resonance with paintings by Brueghel; a set of quick improvisations like the motion studies done for a drawing class. Simpson's work shows us, again and again, the insight and excitement that come from the practice of a necessary craft in the service of a committed vision. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Canadian - Poetry | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2003446450 |
| Physical Information: 0.32" H x 6.4" W x 8.3" (0.30 lbs) 104 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: By the author of Light Falls Through You and the novel Canterbury Beach In Loop, Anne Simpson explores the power, and the anguish, of many different modes of return - retrieval, revision, the covering of old ground with eyes wider and thoughts reconditioned by difficult wisdom. These poems occur at that place where a focused, compassionate vision comes to inhabit language and to find the forms that will suffice: a M bius strip poem that loops back on itself; a crown of sonnets that take us back to the shock and grief of the twin towers and find deep resonance with paintings by Brueghel; a set of quick improvisations like the motion studies done for a drawing class. Simpson's work shows us, again and again, the insight and excitement that come from the practice of a necessary craft in the service of a committed vision. |
