
Point No Point
Poems
Jane Munro(Author)
McClelland & Stewart Inc. (Publisher)
Published on 7. March 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-0-7710-6678-8 (ISBN)
Description
Point No Point's title comes from a landform — an actual point on the west coast of Vancouver Island, which seems, when approached from the other side, to be no point at all — and it alerts us to the fact that Jane Munro's poems are situated in a deep sense. They live in situ in the way they inhabit their native place, intimate with its mists, its mosses and lichens, with the salmonberry and false lily-of-the-valley of their ecosystem. They are also situated temporally, evoking sharply etched memories, visions, and dreams: a real-time visit to her father's boatyard, a dream visit with her mother from a time before the poet was conceived, a flashback to the sixties rendered in extreme close-up. By their musical attunement and the acuity of the focus, they demonstrate how such deep situation may come about, how we might bring language to the task of living in a way which is fully present. In the long culminating poem, "Moving to a Colder Climate,” Munro brings all these elements into play, summoning her father's bold obstreperous ghost to be present as a new house is built — situated — in this language. Her gifts as a poet — acuity, candour, musicality — make Point No Point a work of unforgettable witness.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
132 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7710-6678-8 (9780771066788)
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Person
Jane Munro