
Tablature
Bruce Whiteman(Author)
McGill-Queen's University Press
3rd Edition
Will be published approx. on 15. January 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
94 pages
978-0-7735-4453-6 (ISBN)
Description
From the "rubble [that] is the order of the day" in the opening poem to the longing for a "radiant happy ending" in the book's final line, Tablature is a book of poems that traverses a great swath of the heart's experience in compelling and lucid poetic language. Bruce Whiteman's first book of poems in traditional lined form in thirty years is by turns learned and allusive, and emotionally expressive and despairing. These poems engage three large and powerful subjects: the landscapes we see and abide in, music that is comforting and a guide to hearing the poem's compulsions, and love - erotic, domestic, and enduring. Whiteman is keenly observant of the natural world of birds and trees, of rocks and water, alive to the pressures and hurts of daily life, and above all to the ways in which music rescues us from dependency and pulls us back from a "cultivated hysteria." If there is an "intimate / apocalypse," there is also "radiant hope." The poems in Tablature capture readers with their singular music and their bright and unblinking takes on the quotidian challenges of living a life. These are poems of a highly tuned sensibility matched by a sweetness of language.
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Series
Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Montreal
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 183 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
100 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-4453-6 (9780773544536)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Person
Bruce Whiteman is a poet and book reviewer. He lives in Toronto.

