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Sleeping in Tall Grass
Richard Therrien
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Description for Sleeping in Tall Grass
Paperback. Drawing from the family story, Therrien's poems speak to and simultaneously transcend the label "prairie." Series: Robert Kroetsch Series. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 133 x 5. Weight in Grams: 90.
My emptiness will not be frenetic with the friction of my father's silences but still as the unmarked graves of his many forgotten selves -From Salt A cycle of poems, Sleeping in Tall Grass takes an unsparing look at a painful, sometimes abusive, yet strangely redemptive family story enfolded within the body of the Canadian prairie itself-at once physical, historical, and metaphysical. These intensely personal poems reflect the complex relationships between sound and space, language and silence. Treating time as more layered than sequential, they reflect a process of organic composition distilled from Therrien's iterative observations ... Read more
My emptiness will not be frenetic with the friction of my father's silences but still as the unmarked graves of his many forgotten selves -From Salt A cycle of poems, Sleeping in Tall Grass takes an unsparing look at a painful, sometimes abusive, yet strangely redemptive family story enfolded within the body of the Canadian prairie itself-at once physical, historical, and metaphysical. These intensely personal poems reflect the complex relationships between sound and space, language and silence. Treating time as more layered than sequential, they reflect a process of organic composition distilled from Therrien's iterative observations ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Alberta Press
Condition
New
Series
Robert Kroetsch Series
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
Alberta, Canada
ISBN
9781772121223
SKU
V9781772121223
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About Richard Therrien
Poet and editor Richard Therrien has worked at a number of occupations, including landscape labourer, photography instructor, filmmaker, and speech writer. Born and raised on-and a repeated escapee from-the Canadian prairie, he has published across North America and currently works and lives in North Vancouver.
Reviews for Sleeping in Tall Grass
'Sleeping in Tall Grass' is an outstanding first poetry collection... In the opening long poem, 'Nowhere in Sight,' Therrien uses the physical experience of walking across the prairie as a metaphor for poetry while a walking rhythm sparks spiritual insight... Sleeping in Tall Grass is a wise book, erudite and philosophical at times but foremost a spiritual and redemptive work. ... Read more