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The Porcupinity of the Stars
Gary Barwin
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Description for The Porcupinity of the Stars
Paperback. In this much-anticipated new collection, poet and musician Gary Barwin both continues and extends the alchemical collision of language. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 142.
Winner of the 2011 Hamilton Literary Award for Poetry! In this much-anticipated new collection, poet and musician Gary Barwin both continues and extends the alchemical collision of language, imaginative flight and quiet beauty that have made him unique among contemporary poets. As the Utne Reader has noted, what makes this work 'so compelling is Barwin's balance of melancholy with wide-eyed wonder.' The Porcupinity of the Stars sees the always bemused and wistful poet reaching into new and deeper territory, addressing the joys and vagaries of perception in poems touching on family, loss, wonder, and the shifting, often perplexing nature of ... Read more
Winner of the 2011 Hamilton Literary Award for Poetry! In this much-anticipated new collection, poet and musician Gary Barwin both continues and extends the alchemical collision of language, imaginative flight and quiet beauty that have made him unique among contemporary poets. As the Utne Reader has noted, what makes this work 'so compelling is Barwin's balance of melancholy with wide-eyed wonder.' The Porcupinity of the Stars sees the always bemused and wistful poet reaching into new and deeper territory, addressing the joys and vagaries of perception in poems touching on family, loss, wonder, and the shifting, often perplexing nature of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781552452356
SKU
V9781552452356
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About Gary Barwin
Gary Barwin is a poet, fiction writer, composer and performer. His music and writing have been performed and broadcast in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. His publications include poetry: Outside the Hat, Raising Eyebrows, Servants of Dust, anus porcupine eyebrow and frogments from the frag pool (with derek beaulieu); and fiction: Doctor Weep and other Strange Teeth, Big Red ... Read more
Reviews for The Porcupinity of the Stars
'Between the freaky, funny filmmaker Guy Maddin and author Gary Barwin, Canada is producing some of the most innovative creative works of our time.'
Utne Reader 'Gary Barwin delivers surreal, parabolic, even mythic poems, the denseness of which opens up to sparkle with an alluring beauty, as in the image conjured by the book's title ... The poems in ... Read more
Utne Reader 'Gary Barwin delivers surreal, parabolic, even mythic poems, the denseness of which opens up to sparkle with an alluring beauty, as in the image conjured by the book's title ... The poems in ... Read more