Full Description
"The Long Walk carries a lifetime's force of meaning. A deeply beautiful book." Anne Michaels In The Long Walk, Jan Zwicky bears witness to environmental and cultural cataclysm. Both prophetic and acutely personal, these poems extend her previous meditations on colonial barbarism and ecocide, on spiritual catastrophe and transformation. The voice now penetrates the steepest darknesses; it possesses extraordinary reach and density. Zwicky is one of North America's finest poets and in this book she gives us her most profound work to date.
Contents
Courage I Into the Gap To the Pass Gate Break Securing the House Depth II Witness Near In the Shadow of a New Age Desire Grief - The Old Dream - Terminal - Night Farm - Leaving Intelligence Nocturne, Upper Gagetown, 21 August 1991 III Departure at Dawn Brahms: Ballade in B Minor, Opus 10 No. 4 Yes No Meditation Looking West from the Berkeley Hills Philosophy Physics IV Other People's Country Under the Storm The Ruined Garden Europe The Last Adagio Late Love Into the Dark Consummatum est Letter to Simplikios In Winter Humility Seeing Above the Falls Haydn: The Unpublished Sonatas Notes and Acknowledgements
