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Small Fires
Kelly Norah Drukker
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Description for Small Fires
Paperback. Poems that illustrate the stories that lie buried in landscapes and in human lives. Series: The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series. Num Pages: 124 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 4852 x 3226 x 13. Weight in Grams: 136.
We come / to kneel at the doorway, / to peer into that kind of / dark. To think our way / backwards, listening. Tracing a series of journeys, real and imagined, Kelly Norah Drukker's Small Fires opens with a section of poems set on Inis Mor, a remote, Irish-speaking island off the west coast of County Galway, where the poet-as-speaker discovers the ways in which remnants of the island's early Christian monastic culture brush up against island life in the twenty-first century. Also present is a series of poems set in the Midi-Pyrenees and in the countryside around Lyon. ... Read more
We come / to kneel at the doorway, / to peer into that kind of / dark. To think our way / backwards, listening. Tracing a series of journeys, real and imagined, Kelly Norah Drukker's Small Fires opens with a section of poems set on Inis Mor, a remote, Irish-speaking island off the west coast of County Galway, where the poet-as-speaker discovers the ways in which remnants of the island's early Christian monastic culture brush up against island life in the twenty-first century. Also present is a series of poems set in the Midi-Pyrenees and in the countryside around Lyon. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
124
Condition
New
Series
The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series
Number of Pages
124
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773547704
SKU
V9780773547704
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About Kelly Norah Drukker
Kelly Norah Drukker' s work has appeared in journals in Canada, the UK, and Ireland. She lives in Montreal.
Reviews for Small Fires
" If one were to make a colour palette for Small Fires, it would be a watercolour of stones and derelict wood greys, dusky blues, a smear of rainy green through a window, the creosote of town, as rage by morning dies down to " murmur / through stovepipes." " Montreal Review of Books " Small Fires is a petit ... Read more