Pamela Porter

House Made of Rain

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In this breath-taking collection of poems, Pamela Porter invokes the twin mysteries of love and loss to illumine the heart burdened by grief, yet comforted and renewed by the beauty of the natural world. In the long poem Atonement, Porter takes us into a human drama, rich with astonishments: There was no snow, but you could say the snow buried everything, and you'd be right. In simple language at once lyrical and powerful, these poems are a meditation on vulnerability -- how fragile we are; a word shatters us -- on nature, where plum blossoms are kissed eyelids, moths / the night's numberless secrets / little messengers that whisper, release,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-55380-341-6
EAN: 9781553803416
Produktnummer: 16398664
Verlag: Ronsdale Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 110 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B16.5 cm x D0.5 cm 158 g
Gewicht: 158

Über den Autor

Pamela Porters work has won more than a dozen international, national, provincial, and local awards, including the Governor Generals Award, the Gwendolyn MacEwan Poetry Prize, the Malahat Reviews 50th Anniversary Poetry Prize, and has appeared on the CBC, Pat Lowther and Raymond Souster Award shortlists. Pamela lives near Sidney, BC, with her family and a menagerie of rescued horses, dogs, and cats.