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Here Come the Moonbathers
Patricia Young
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Description for Here Come the Moonbathers
Paperback. Exploring the themes of love and longing and loss with grace, bewilderment, playfulness, and occasionally anger. Num Pages: 80 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: DCF; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 8. Weight in Grams: 157.
While the tone of Patricia Young's latest collection, Here Come the Moonbathers, is perhaps more dark, difficult and tragic than her earlier work, beautifully hedonic poems spark and sizzle throughout. The poems in this collection have wild freedom, different kinds of power, exploring the themes of love and longing and loss (especially the latter) with grace, bewilderment, playfulness, and occasionally anger. There's a surreal edge to many of these poems, a personal, political and ecological vision, and an incantatory vernacular and rhythm that makes these poems unforgettable. This collection is perhaps the more important and immediately human of Patricia Young's ... Read more
While the tone of Patricia Young's latest collection, Here Come the Moonbathers, is perhaps more dark, difficult and tragic than her earlier work, beautifully hedonic poems spark and sizzle throughout. The poems in this collection have wild freedom, different kinds of power, exploring the themes of love and longing and loss (especially the latter) with grace, bewilderment, playfulness, and occasionally anger. There's a surreal edge to many of these poems, a personal, political and ecological vision, and an incantatory vernacular and rhythm that makes these poems unforgettable. This collection is perhaps the more important and immediately human of Patricia Young's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Biblioasis Canada
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Emeryville, Canada
ISBN
9781897231432
SKU
V9781897231432
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Ref
99-1
About Patricia Young
Patricia Young: Patricia Young is the author of eight books of poetry, and one book of short fiction, Airstream (Biblioasis, 2006). A two-time Governor General's Award nominee, she has also won the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, the CBC Literary Competition, the British Columbia Book Prize for Poetry and the League of Canadian Poets National Poetry ... Read more
Reviews for Here Come the Moonbathers
"With her sure hand wielding the knife of understanding, Young cuts not just to the bone, but well beyond into realms that transcend the here, the now and the merely personal."—Monday Magazine "Beautifully crafted, subtle and emotionally intense."Winnipeg Free Press "Though many have experimented boldly with poetic form, few have matched Young's proficiency."—Frederiction's Daily Gleaner