作品情報

夢景と祈りをたどり、喪失の感触を静かに掬い上げる。

『Blue Sonoma』は、愛する人の認知症と向き合いながら、自然や日常の断片を詩に変えていく詩集。観察の細やかさと、年齢を重ねた視点の深みがよく伝わる。

書籍情報

出版社

Brick Books

発売日

2014-05-01

ページ数

104ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

14.61 x 1.02 x 21.59 cm

ISBN-13

9781926829883

ISBN-10

1926829883

価格

11975 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/Literature & Fiction/World Literature

A wise and embodied collection of dreamscapes, sutras and prayer poems from a writer at her peak In Blue Sonoma , award-winning poet Jane Munro draws on her well-honed talents to address what Eliot called "the gifts reserved for age." A beloved partner's crossing into Alzheimer's is at the heart of this book, and his "battered blue Sonoma" is an evocation of numerous other crossings: between empirical reportage and meditative apprehension, dreaming and wakefulness, Eastern and Western poetic traditions. Rich in both pathos and sharp shards of insight, Munro's wisdom here is deeply embedded, shot through with moments of wit and candour. In the tradition of Taoist poets like Wang Wei and Po-Chu-i, her sixth and best book opens a wide poetic space, and renders difficult conditions with the lightest of touches. "Grey wood twisted tight within the framework of the tree― impossible to snap off, forged as it dries. And in me, parts I can't imagine myself without―silvering." ―from "The live arbutus carries dead branches..."

Jane Munro is the author of five previous books of poetry. Her work has received the Bliss Carman Poetry Award and the Macmillan Prize for Poetry, and was nominated for the Pat Lowther Award. She is a member of Yoko's Dogs, a poetry collective whose first book, Whisk, appeared in 2013. She lives in Vancouver.

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