Bonfires
by
Chris Banks
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0889711968
ISBN-13
9780889711969
Publisher
Nightwood Editions
Imprint
Nightwood Editions
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 30th, 2003
Print length
96 Pages
Weight
222 grams
Dimensions
20.30 x 14.00 x 0.60 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry
Ksh 1,600.00
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Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Jack Chalmers Poetry Award (2004) and shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award for Poetry (2004)
Bringing Canadian poetry back to the achingly honest tradition of John Newlove and Bronwen Wallace, Chris Banks eschews linguistic showmanship, sketching in deft strokes the foreignness of things familiar.
Framed within the rural landscape of southwestern Ontario and Al Purdy''s "country north of Belleville," Banks turns his pen to modern life and the small domestic urgencies that arise from it. This is a landscape we are all familiar with - grocery lines, "chemical-green lawns," piles of gas bills and tax receipts, endless whirring highways and "a nacreous moon shining/ over condominiums." A pointed and unrequited longing underpins Bonfires, but rather than toil in the darkness of his daily observations, Banks presses on to show us the essential centre where "everything disassembles itself / into some new clarity here."
Framed within the rural landscape of southwestern Ontario and Al Purdy''s "country north of Belleville," Banks turns his pen to modern life and the small domestic urgencies that arise from it. This is a landscape we are all familiar with - grocery lines, "chemical-green lawns," piles of gas bills and tax receipts, endless whirring highways and "a nacreous moon shining/ over condominiums." A pointed and unrequited longing underpins Bonfires, but rather than toil in the darkness of his daily observations, Banks presses on to show us the essential centre where "everything disassembles itself / into some new clarity here."
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