Selected Poems 1983–2020
✍ Scribed by Steven Heighton
- Book ID
- 110720864
- Publisher
- House of Anansi Press Inc
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 287 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781487007386
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
This collection of new and previously published poems by Steven Heighton, author of the Governor General's Literary Award winner The Waking Comes Late**, showcases a defining lyric poet of his generation.**
Selected Poems 1983–2020 is Steven Heighton's seventh volume of poetry and the first since his Governor General's Literary Award–winning collection, The Waking Comes Late. Incorporating a grouping of previously unpublished poetry and a selection of key poems from his six previous acclaimed collections, this timely volume showcases a generational talent whose work has been described by critics as "exhilarating," "genuine," and "arrestingly beautiful."
Heighton's debut collection, Stalin's Carnival,won the Gerald Lampert Award for Best First Book of Poetry in 1990. Subsequent books, which include bestselling novels, essays, and critical writings, confirmed Heighton as an exciting and important voice in Canadian letters. Heighton's poetry is recognised for its technical skill and musicality, its erudition, and its empathy and unvarnished emotion.
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
The poetry of Don McKay is renowned for its piquant wit, lyric emotion, and pitch-perfect vernacular music. His work has received national acclaim and the recognition of many awards, including the Governor General's Award for Poetry, which he has won twice, and, most recently, from the prestigious a
**A new collection of poems from one of America's most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips's *Then the War****I'm a song, changing. I'm a light* *rain falling through a vast* *darkness toward a different* *darkness.* Carl Phillips has aptly described his work as an "o
**"An invaluable aid in this time of troubled spirits, muddled truths, and convoluted thinking." — Mark Mothersbaugh, Devo** Paul Vermeersch has reinvented the "new and selected." Bringing together the very best of his poetry from the last quarter century with new and never-before-published works,
Thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, mystic, scholar and founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes, Jelaluddin Rumi was also a poet of transcendental power. His inspirational verse speaks with the universal voice of the human soul and brims with exuberant energy and passion. Rich in natural