A House in Memory
Last Poems
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Erschienen am 23. Juli 2020
139 Seiten
978-0-2280-0261-1 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
"the language of the waterway / the name / the train's route through bliss / to" When the poet and novelist David Helwig - a recipient of the Matt Cohen Prize for lifetime achievement and a member of the Order of Canada - died in October 2018, he left behind a substantial catalogue of unpublished work. A House in Memory, a selection of Helwig's last poems, was assembled by his daughter, Maggie. It shows an author still at the height of his powers, creating work in complex formal structures, contemplating mortality, memory, and the landscape of his adopted home of Prince Edward Island, and paying tribute to his literary predecessors. The collection also includes unpublished poems from earlier in Helwig's career. Ranging widely through time, space, and literary tradition, A House in Memory features some deeply personal poems. As Maggie Helwig says of her father, "he could not cease to be a poet as long as he had breath in this world.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"Some yearn to be writers; others have no choice but to write. No one who knew David Helwig, or who read his work, could ever doubt what sort of writer he was. A House in Memory confirms what his readers have long known: that he was not only a compulsive poet but also one of tremendous range, depth, and eloquence." Steven Heighton, Governor General's Poetry Award winner for The Waking Comes Late "This collection of last poems by the inimitable David Helwig is not so much an elegy as an exaltation of all that makes up a richly creative and compassionate life. David, we will always miss you - but oh, you've left us so much. Thank you." Diane SchoemWeitere Details
Reihe
Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
Montreal, QC
Kanada
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Editions-Typ
Digitale Ausgabe
Dateigröße
3,96 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-2280-0261-1 (9780228002611)
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McGill-Queen's University Press
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Person
David Helwig (1938-2018) was the author of nearly fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. A longtime resident of Kingston, he spent his final years in Belfast, Prince Edward Island.
Inhalt
- Cover
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Foreword
- I - Late Poems (2015-2018)
- Waiting
- Untitled
- Country poems after Virgil's Georgics
- ". also in rejoicing ."
- On your 18th
- Night Words for All the Islands
- Three Lyrics
- Oedipus at the Crossroads
- The Nieces
- Rhymeless in Season
- Quatrains
- Quatre Études
- Midsummer
- High Up on the Top Floor
- Clockwise
- Dahlias
- Enduring Prophecy
- Thaw
- Improvisations
- Queen Anne's Lace
- Macdonald Park: September, 2015
- Polecat Song
- Spring
- May Rain
- Nausicaa Meets a Stranger
- Alien Newcomers
- You, as a Stranger
- Going Away Now
- Travel Documents for All Souls
- Envoi
- Varadero, 2017
- Epilogues to Summer
- Hymn for No Singing
- O Summerland
- Prayer
- Approaching the Strait
- Dinner with Random Gods
- (les préludes, sonnet before creation)
- Migration in Orange
- The Pantheon
- Pacific
- Zinnias Imposed
- The Art History Brief Sonnet
- (des tristes esprits: sonnet from history)
- Farmscape
- A Shade-Sonnet Comes
- Imitations of Hafiz
- November footnote (moon)
- II - A Selection of Earlier Poems
- The Wrong Side of the Park
- Old Friends
- Getting to Missouri
- for Bill in April
- Vine Street
- At the Museum
- Untitled
- Travelling
- Summer Again
- Rosaceae
- Self-Portrait: as an Old House
- Damage
- Memorial
- Nocturne: John Field
- Aubade
- Gallus Absconditus
- Illuminations
- Kentville, October
- Two Views
- last lines
