作品情報

記憶と喪失を、静かな反復の中で詩へと変える。

カナダの詩人。記憶や個人的経験を詩的に編む手法で知られ、細部への注意深さと静かな感受性を持つ作品が特徴。

書籍情報

出版社

McClelland & Stewart

発売日

2003-03-25

ページ数

104ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

14.81 x 0.69 x 21.49 cm

ISBN-13

9780771080753

ISBN-10

0771080751

価格

2839 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/Literature & Fiction/Mythology & Folk Tales/Fairy Tales

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 Möbius 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.

ANNE SIMPSON is the author of four books of poetry, Is (2011); Quick (2007), winner of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award; Loop (2003), winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize; and Light Falls Through You (2000), winner of the Gerald Lampert Memorial Prize and the Atlantic Poetry Prize. She has also written two novels, Falling (2008), longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and winner of the Dartmouth Award for Fiction, and Canterbury Beach (2001). Her book of essays, The Marram Grass: Poetry and Otherness (2009), delves into issues of poetry, art, and empathy. While her home is in Nova Scotia, she has been a writer-in-residence at many universities and libraries across Canada.

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