Limit this search to....

Love Outlandish
Contributor(s): Dempster, Barry (Author)
ISBN: 1894078705     ISBN-13: 9781894078702
Publisher: Brick Books
OUR PRICE:   $17.10  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: March 2009
Qty:
Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - General
- Poetry | Canadian
Dewey: 811.54
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 8.5" (0.50 lbs) 120 pages
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
A love affair chronicled--from obsession to heartbreak, foolhardiness to faith.

In "Love Outlandish," Barry Dempster undoes all the cliches that have barnacled our love lives and, with the zest and courage typical of his work, explores their torrents and eddies afresh. As in his previous books, Dempster responds to D.H. Lawrence's plea that we should discover and articulate what the heart really wants rather than some idealized version of it. Thoughtful, passionate, full of humour and self-aware wit, "Love Outlandish" delivers, again and again, the shock of recognition that permits us to laugh at, and with, the very emotions it probes. This is a book to relish for its energy and cherish for its wisdom.

My favourite is the one where his love
keeps trouncing distance
even after she's gone, making
harmonies out of death rattles.
It's the crack in his heart
where the melody lingers, the hiss
of an old 45. How can I help
but sing along, hard, hard song,
unconditional illusion.

&3150; from "Hard Song"

.,."Barry Dempster trains his poetic gaze on the lonely marrow inside love, and blows it wide open." -Jeanette Lynes

"Talk about luscious, limber language The wonderful poems of Barry Dempster in "Love Outlandish" extend the possibilities of 'love lives' themselves--what doesn't quite work out becomes, thanks to careful, original imagery and vibrant description, somehow as magnetic and translucent as what does..." -Naomi Shihab Nye

Contributor Bio(s): Dempster, Barry: - Barry Dempster is the author of two volumes of short stories, a novel, a children's book, and nine previous collections of poetry, the most recent of which, The Burning Alphabet, won the 2006 Canadian Authors' Association Jack Chalmers Award and was nominated for the 2005 Governor General's Award for Poetry. Born and raised in Toronto, he presently lives in Holland Landing, Ontario, where he runs a film series, two book clubs and a writing group.