The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane

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Publisher : Harbour Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781550175479
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane written by Patrick Lane and published by Harbour Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents the accumulated richness of fifty years' work by one of Canada's most important poets, Patrick Lane. Here, the reader can see how he developed from an engaged recorder of hard experience--even traumatic violence--into a master poet whose meditations on nature, human frailty, and love allow him to balance the world's suffering with stunning moments of transcendent beauty and a vision of peace. He expresses himself in a variety of forms and tones--in turn despairing and rejoicing, tender and brutal, imagistic and elegiac, deeply personal and universal. As Nicholas Bradley observes, in an afterword written for this volume, "The journey that Lane's works trace has been long and hard, but, as this collection demonstrates, his poems achieve both understanding and grace." Edited by two distinguished scholars of Canadian literature, this long-overdue book gathers a lifetime of work. Ranging from Letters from a Savage Mind (1966) to Witness (2010), this collection contains more than four hundred poems (many revised for this publication) and demonstrates the breadth of Lane's achievement.

Selected Poems, 1977-1997

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Publisher : Harbour Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781550171747
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems, 1977-1997 written by Patrick Lane and published by Harbour Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of twenty years of Lane's best poetry.

Syllable of Stone

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Publisher : ARC Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Syllable of Stone written by Patrick Lane and published by ARC Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intense, starkly honest, often disturbing, yet also subtle, compassionate, even gentle, Patrick Lane's poems are always political, driven by personal experience - and whether he's writing about the natural world or the human condition, they make an indelible impression.

Last Water Song

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Publisher : Harbour Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781550174502
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Last Water Song written by Patrick Lane and published by Harbour Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2008 Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry Longlisted for the 2007 Victoria Butler Book Prize Last Water Song, the first collection of new poetry from award-winning poet Patrick Lane since Go Leaving Strange (Harbour, 2004), is divided into two parts. The first part is a series of 16 long elegies on writer acquaintances who have died, including Adele Wiseman, Al Purdy, Earle Birney and Irving Layton. Prosey, relaxed and personal, these are some of the most moving poems Lane has written. The second section consists of 23 lyrics and narratives more typical of Lane's recent work, ranging from the eloquent "Teaching Poetry" to the evocative title poem with its hint of finality. Last Water Song is the work of a great Canadian poet, a collection to treasure.

There Is A Season

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Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771046340
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book There Is A Season written by Patrick Lane and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2005-02-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Believed by many to be one of the finest poets of his generation, Patrick Lane is also a passionate gardener. He lives on Vancouver Island, a place of uncommon beauty, where the climate is mild, the air is soft, and the growing season lasts nearly all year long. Lane has gardened for as long as he can remember, and sees his garden’s life as intertwined with his own. And when he gave up drinking, after years of addiction, he found solace and healing in tending to his yard. In this exquisitely written memoir, he relates stories of his hard early life in the context of the landscape he’s created. As he observes the seasonal changes, a plant or a bird or the way a tree bends in the wind brings to mind an episode from his storied past. Lane writes evocative descriptions of the animals, birds, insects, and plants that are his garden, and of the relationship he has to them all. Accompany Lane as he wanders his garden, where botanical “madeleines” release in him a flood of memory.

The Bare Plum of Winter Rain

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Publisher : Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9781550172263
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book The Bare Plum of Winter Rain written by Patrick Lane and published by Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection from one of Canada's finest poets.

Poems, New & Selected

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Poems, New & Selected written by Patrick Lane and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1978 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LANE CREATES STARK IMAGES IN THESE ACCOUNTS OF HIS TRAVELS AND EXPERIENCES. WINNER OF THE 1978 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD.

Alden Nowlan Selected Poems

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Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 1770893768
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Alden Nowlan Selected Poems written by Alden Nowlan and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best of beloved poet Alden Nowlan's explicitly honest, direct, and insightful poetry. Now featuring an introduction by Susan Musgrave. Alden Nowlan, one of Canada's finest and most influential poets, died in 1983. He leaves a rich legacy of poetry that is accessible yet profound, and that speaks to people's lives with wry observation and keen insight. Alden Nowlan Selected Poems is for Nowlan fans and new readers alike. The poems included in this volume reflect the recurring themes that illuminate Nowlan's work, and it is truly the best of his poetry. Above all, this volume is a tribute to a poet who deserves to be treasured for all time.

Passing Into Storm

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ISBN 13 : 9780920080641
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Passing Into Storm written by Patrick Lane and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Witness

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Publisher : Harbour Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781550175080
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Witness written by Patrick Lane and published by Harbour Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick Lane is one of Canada's pre-eminent poets, winner of numerous awards, including the Governor General's Award for Poetry, the Canadian Authors Association Award, the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence and three National Magazine Awards. His distinguished career spans forty-five years and twenty-four volumes of poetry as well as award-winning books of fiction and non-fiction. Witness is the only volume to cover the breadth of Lane's career and gather up the finest of his work--from early poems penned during his literary beginnings to new poems written at the height of his career. Fierce, piercing, and unflinchingly honest, Lane explores the darker side of human nature and desire even as he looks to the future with a hopeful eye, for "even among words/there are bright seeds hidden . . ." This striking volume is required reading, not only for fans of Patrick Lane's work, but for poetry lovers and Canadian literature enthusiasts everywhere.

Washita

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Publisher : Harbour Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781550176766
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Washita written by Patrick Lane and published by Harbour Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lane is a poet more of the individual, hard-hitting poem; like physical blows, he wields his pieces like small threats of intense beauty." --Globe and Mail Following the success of his award-winning memoir There is a Season (2004) and his bestselling novel Red Dog, Red Dog (2008), Patrick Lane felt his celebrated poetry career might be at an end and published his Collected Poems in 2011. But the process of revisiting his collected poetic works rekindled his first love and launched him on a new phase of poetry composition that resulted in this impressive and distinctive new book. Honest and self-aware, Washita evokes some of the most inexpressible experiences a human being can undergo: the loss of a parent, the breakdown of a body, the perversion of nature, the acquiring of wisdom. In "Hard-Rock," a boy begins to understand that his father will die: "His lungs created elaborate cathedrals from quartz dust, / a crystal symphony playing Mahler under water." In "Submission," a speaker struggles with losing his sight, capable only of expressing himself through metaphor. But amid this darkness sparks an awareness of the artistry of the world: "Vete a la mierda, hijo de puta! / Hate is beautiful in Spanish." As might be expected from a seventy-five-year-old poet, Washita is reflective in tone, exploring all facets of the poet's own life as well as those others his has touched. Introducing a new style employing medium-length, end-stopped lines, terse diction and concrete imagery, Washita has a solidity and mastery that marks it as a new highlight in Lane's distinguished career.

What the Stones Remember

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Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 083482695X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book What the Stones Remember written by Patrick Lane and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2006-12-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exquisitely written memoir, poet Patrick Lane describes his raw and tender emergence at age sixty from a lifetime of alcohol and drug addiction. He spent the first year of his sobriety close to home, tending his garden, where he cast his mind back over his life, searching for the memories he'd tried to drown in vodka. Lane has gardened for as long as he can remember, and his garden's life has become inseparable from his own. A new bloom on a plant, a skirmish among the birds, the way a tree bends in the wind, and the slow, measured change of seasons invariably bring to his mind an episode from his eventful past. What the Stones Remember is the emerging chronicle of Lane's attempt to face those memories, as well as his new self—to rediscover his life. In this powerful and beautifully written book, Lane offers readers an unflinching and unsentimental account of coming to one's senses in the presence of nature.

Mortal Remains

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Publisher : Exile Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781550965414
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book Mortal Remains written by Patrick Lane and published by Exile Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many truths in life we know of but fail to acknowledge because they cause too much pain. It is these dark places that Patrick Lane, one of Canada's most important writers, tackles in Mortal Remains. These poems will take readers deep into their own psyches and force them to examine issues close to the bone - if not close to the heart. This book is a must-read for poetry fans unfamiliar with Lane's haunting works.

The Quiet in Me

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Publisher : Harbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781550179811
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book The Quiet in Me written by Patrick Lane and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-02 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A posthumous collection of poetry from Patrick Lane, compiled and edited by Lorna Crozier. In this final collection, Patrick Lane cultivates the quiet of living in a body amongst so many other bodies--the trout in the lake, geese arriving with the wind, a raccoon fishing in a river--ultimately revealing a tangled web of life and a speaker who sees both beauty and pain brimming around him. Together, the poems in The Quiet in Me are a clear-eyed and sharp meditation on existing in a world pulsing between life and death, death and life. When the body is "a museum for what's gone" and a heart is "the sound of the wind seething," there is no answer but to learn the language of quiet; the language of an earth unfolding itself perpetually in the dawn: "the song of the falling water and wild birds." With incredible poetic precision, this collection is an offering--to come back to yourself and to lose yourself in sight, sound and sense. Playing in paradoxes--"empty marrow bones with their strings of red ants"--these poems cultivate dualisms: intimacy and realism, vulnerability and the roughness of youth, a scar that is a father's teaching, a blade that is a sigh. From one of Canada's most lyric writers comes a book steeped in the wisdom of the natural world. Told by an eye that never ceases to observe and a heart that is willing to make itself known--to invite others into its warmth and wilderness--this collection transposes leaf to leaf, stone to stone, reminding us that water will always return to water and so will we.

Deep River Night

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Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771048181
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Deep River Night written by Patrick Lane and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Cormac McCarthy, Russell Banks, and Annie Proulx, the much-anticipated new novel by the bestselling author of Red Dog, Red Dog is set over the course of 48 hours in a remote sawmill community where violence, complicity, and inaction run deep. World War Two vet Art Kenning is the alcoholic first-aid man in an isolated sawmill village in the interior of B.C., where he dreads the sound of the five whistles that summon him to the mill floor whenever a worker is hurt. Traumatized by an incident in Holland, when he stood by while members of his unit committed a horrific act, he loses himself in drink, and in memories of the love affair he had with a woman in wartime Paris. But the sad comfort of his self-imposed detachment is shattered when one of the most powerful men at the mill arrives at his door late one evening to ask for his help. What unfolds over the course of that night and following day will force Art to confront acts of evil, both in the present and the past, as well as the tragic consequences of his own inaction. .Alternating with Art's story are the stories of Joel, a teenaged runaway who owes his life to Art, Wang Po, the mill's cook and a survivor of the Rape of Nanjing, Alice, a young Indigenous girl sold from a residential school, and, Cliff, a Metis man with a hidden past. These lives, and more, intertwine to reveal a complex, morally ambiguous community where the undercurrents of violence and complicity are never far from the surface. Writing with exquisite precision and emotional force, Patrick Lane gives us a novel whose darkness is fractured by moments of light. Deep River Night is a riveting story about the burden of bearing witness to a terrible crime

Answer to Blue

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Publisher : Harbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1550179683
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Answer to Blue written by Russell Thornton and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-23 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful new collection by award-winning poet Russell Thornton. In “Greek Fire,” one of the poems in Russell Thornton’s astonishing new collection, the central image is of fire burning through water: “water is a bridge / for a fire to come into the world.” This image also illuminates the driving force that animates the poems in Answer to Blue. The stillness and quiet depth characteristic of Thornton’s poetry are here shot through with an irresistible vitality, a flame of mythic resonance. The past, both ancient and recent, exerts a gravitational pull throughout the collection, with Greek myths, family histories and biblical passages unearthed and examined, forgotten and returned to, giving way in a cyclical rhythm to the transient presence of young children, often caught flitting away just at the edge of vision. With a clarity that pierces through the mist of daily routine, Thornton gives attention to transitional states, pausing at the often rushed-through moments of change, and also examines the phenomenon of perception itself. This collection’s response to D.H. Lawrence’s question—“Oh what in you can answer to this blueness?”—is both an answer and a challenge, an achievement of beauty that contains the seed of something more enduring and sacred.

All That Uneasy Spring

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ISBN 13 : 9780978053680
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (536 download)

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Download or read book All That Uneasy Spring written by Patrick Lane and published by . This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: