Author : Allan Cooper
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ISBN 13 : 9781554471201
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (712 download)
Book Synopsis The Deer Yard by : Allan Cooper
Download or read book The Deer Yard written by Allan Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the winter of 2009, Harry Thurston travelled to Campbell River on Vancouver Island to serve a term as writer-in-residence in the former home of the renowned fisherman and environmentalist Roderick Haig-Brown. While there, he and his longtime friend Allan Cooper embarked on a poetic correspondence; Thurston would send his Campbell River poems east and Cooper would reply. In this, they were consciously following the model of the Wang River Sequence, a poetic correspondence written by the Chinese poets Wang Wei and P'ei Ti over 1200 years ago. "Our poetry-separately-has always been rooted deeply in the natural world," writes Thurston. "Like many other Western poets, we have looked to the East, to classical Chinese poetry, as one model to best express our relationship with what we now call the environment, a no less reverential term than Nature." The resulting twenty-one poems are reflective and richly imagistic, chronicling a single winter season as experienced by two writers on opposite Canadian coasts.