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The essential Margaret Avison / selected by Robyn Sarah.
| Author/creator | Avison, Margaret |
| Other author | Sarah, Robyn. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Erin, Ont. : Porcupine's Quill, ©2010. |
| Description | 63 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Front cover image |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor image |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Poems. Selections |
| Series | Essential poets ; 6 Essential poets (Erin, Ont.) ^A1041139 |
| Contents | Always now: the collected poems (volume 1) -- The butterfly -- Winter sun -- Snow -- Jonathan, O Jonathan -- The world still needs -- All fool's eve -- Hiatus -- November 23 -- New year's poem -- The swimmer's moment -- September street -- Watershed -- Thaw -- Mordent for a melody -- Always now: the collected poems (volume 1) -- The typographer's ornate symbol -- The dumbfounding -- Pace -- Twilight -- In a season of unemployment -- July man -- A nameless one -- Many as two -- A story -- The dumbfounding -- sunblue -- Oughtiness ousted -- Hid life -- Slow advent -- Released flow -- Cement worker on a hot day -- Scar-face -- A lament -- No time -- Noted, foundered -- Power -- Loss -- Crowd corralling -- Not yet but still -- Lit sky and foundered earth -- Poring -- Concrete and wild carrot -- Balancing out -- Always now: the collected poems (volume 3) -- Sad song -- Momentary dark -- Finished when unfinished -- Prayer of anticipation -- En route -- Poetry is -- Listening : last poems -- Still life -- Metamorphosis -- Safe but shaky. |
| Abstract | The Essential Margaret Avison showcases the development of one of Canada's most brilliant and original poets, twice winner of the Governor-General's Award for Poetry. Margaret Avison's vibrant life work is distilled here into a selection that is illuminating, generous and richly varied. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 63). |
| LCCN | 2010530041 |
| ISBN | 9780889843332 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0889843333 (pbk.) |