The Impossible Uprooting
Description
The Impossible Uprooting was published as a paperback by McClelland & Stewart in 1995 and went out of print in 2004. It is here re-issued as an e-book only.
Selected Reviews of Waltner-Toews's poetry
"Waltner-Toews' gift is this rare ability to find in mundane events, in a relentless environment and persistent human failing the miracle of wonder, the capacity for love." -Di Brandt, The Mennonite Reporter
"He is a poet with an extraordinary lightness of touch." - David Helwig, The Toronto Star
"If a poet of Waltner-Toews' clear vision, strong principles and mischievous good humour were running the world, I'd sleep a lot easier and breath a lot more freely. Hell, I'd probably even start chuckling at unexpected moments, without warning." Andreas Schroeder
"There is a fine sense of the ambiguity and elusiveness of life that animates these poems and gives them a quality of surprise and vitality." Winnipeg Free Press
"What impresses about "Endangered Species" is the breadth of conscience welded to an expert craft. Waltner-Toews has enlarged the notion of 'ecology' to include family, friends and history. In fact, his is an ecology of 'heart', uncluttered with political or ideological bias. He is perhaps prejudiced by an old-fashioned 'humanness'. In an age of strident right'-mongers, Waltner-Toews outrage is clean and his compassion is convincing. He is no prophet, however; he is a family man whose bedtime stories would include a legacy for the whole world." - Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
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He's a singer, a Whitmanic bard... he avoids cant and humbug. " George Elliot Clarke.
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Person
David Waltner-Toews is an internationally celebrated veterinary epidemiologist specializing in ecosystem approaches to health and disease. Founding president of Veterinarians without Borders-Canada, he was awarded the World Small Animal Veterinary Association-Covetrus International Veterinary Community Service Award, which recognizes veterinarians who have exhibited exceptional acts of valour and commitment in the face of adversity to service the community. He was also the recipient of the inaugural award for contributions to ecosystem approaches to health from The International Association for Ecology and Health. Waltner-Toews is the author of more than twenty books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, including, most recently, "On Pandemics: Deadly Diseases from Bubonic Plague to Coronavirus" (Greystone Books, 2020) and "The Inter-Pandemic Backyard Chicken Book: a retirement memoir" (Doft Ivanovitch Books, 2020).
