
But for Now
Gordon Johnston(Author)
McGill-Queen's University Press
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 6. August 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
102 pages
978-0-7735-4290-7 (ISBN)
Description
From "Anna's Lovers" Our houses glow both from within and on the outside: their night lights and an almost perfect and wintry moon. The phrase "but for now" means among other things "making do," as if we had to settle for the bare minimum. In But for Now, Gordon Johnston presents poems where the mortal world is more than enough because there is more to it than the merely mortal and where it is possible to hear beyond the outmoded clanking of inherited religious vocabularies. These poems find moments of grace in chance occurrences and through a wide range of styles and methods, they choreograph the random casual events of our existence. Northrop Frye famously asked, "Where is here?" These poems instead ask, "When is now?" Engaged with worlds of waiting and of doing, with enduring and healing, But for Now celebrates music and noise, speech and silence, and asserts that for all the darkness at the edges, there is something shining at the centre of the painting.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Montreal
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 185 mm
Width: 119 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
113 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-4290-7 (9780773542907)
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Person
Gordon Johnston lives in Peterborough where he taught poetry for forty years at Trent University.