Full Description
"Coal and Roses" allows the poet space to both research and to create, looking simultaneously to the past and to her hopes for an uncertain, metaphysical future. Included are a series of 21 glosas, borrowing from the work of Ted Hughes, John Ashbery and Thom Gunn, amongst others. A masterful display of linguistic dexterity, Page assimilates the pervasive complexity and the abundance of tradition that co-exist in the world of literature.
Contents
'Treasure Hunt', Robert Penn Warren 'Of Many Worlds in this World', Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) 'As kingfishers catch fire', Gerard Manley Hopkins 'Creation', Ted Hughes 'Yellow Spring', Juan Ramon Jimenez 'somewhere I have never traveled, gladly beyond', e e cummings 'The Blue Guitar', Wallace Stevens 'Inventory', Dionne Brand 'Paradoxes and Oxymorons', John Ashbery 'Edge of Night', Don McKay 'Report from Paradise', Zbigniew Herbert 'And Once More Saw the Stars', P. K. Page & Philip Stratford 'Finally Left in the Landscape', Gwendolyn MacEwen 'Limits', Jorge Luis Borges 'In a Dark Time', Theodore Roethke 'Love Poem for a my Daughter', Marilyn Bowering'Somnambular Ballad', Federico Garcia Lorca 'The Wound', Thom Gunn 'Everything is Plundered', Akhmatova
