- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: McClelland & Stewart (April 5 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0771057636
- ISBN-13: 978-0771057632
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.7 x 0.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 127 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #860,244 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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“Don McKay is a poet of the senses, not merely of their fingertip interactions with the world, but of deeper senses, the bone experience of life.…”
–London Free Press
“He uses language with the greatest facility: a whole line or even a single word will vibrate like a tuning fork.”
–Globe and Mail
“McKay’s eye is unafraid to see, recording unlikely seeming but uncannily accurate data.”
–Canadian Literature
“…his poems, with their sometimes soaring, sometimes screeching, perceptions…create an effect of controlled wonder.”
–Ottawa Citizen
–London Free Press
“He uses language with the greatest facility: a whole line or even a single word will vibrate like a tuning fork.”
–Globe and Mail
“McKay’s eye is unafraid to see, recording unlikely seeming but uncannily accurate data.”
–Canadian Literature
“…his poems, with their sometimes soaring, sometimes screeching, perceptions…create an effect of controlled wonder.”
–Ottawa Citizen
Book Description
“There’s a place / between desire and memory, some back porch / we can neither wish for nor recall,” writes Don McKay in Apparatus. The poems in this collection home in on that place – those keenly desired places – where language will not reach. Apparatus is Don McKay’s first collection of new poems since his 1991 award-winning Night Field. It is a passionate engagement with nature and a powerful critique of human assaults on wilderness which, for McKay, is more than unsubdued nature; it is whatever eludes the mind’s categories – the insoluble secret of life itself. To read McKay’s poems is to be in touch with the significant concerns of our time and all time. McKay is a poet of unmatched linguistic playfulness, with virtuoso flexibility of voice and an ability to shape-shift through forms, tones, and styles.
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Don McKay, Apparatus (McLelland and Stewart, 1997)I hesitate to call Don McKay a Canadian version of Hayden Carruth. For one thing, McKay hasn't been nearly as prolific. For another, Carruth has a much meaner streak of curmudgeonliness running through him that is positively delicious. Yet when I read Don McKay's wonderful poems, Carruth's name is the one I keep coming back to as the closest poetic equivalent to McKay's work. They both share a love of nature and the chops to communicate it; they both integrate modern sensibility into their poems with what seems minimal effort (and this is a very difficult thing for the nature poet to do); both release books that are guaranteed to charm your socks off. McKay, however, is a more (for lack of a more appropriate term) gentle poet. Apparatus is Governor General award winner McKay's eighth book, and it is a beautiful thing. Two of its sections, especially, deserve mention: "Materiel," a long meditation on Cain after he has killed Abel, and "Three Eclogues," three decent-sized poems written in, well, the style one would expect given the title. Apparatus was also a finalist for the Governor General's award (McKay's third nomination), but lost out to an equally deserving book (Dionne Brand's Land to Light On, also published by M&S). If you haven't yet discovered Don McKay, it will be worth your while to seek him out. If he can get a pave-the-earth person like me to stop and read nature poetry, imagine how good it will be for those who already love the stuff. ****
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Very good stuff.,
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This review is from: Apparatus (Paperback)
Don McKay, Apparatus (McLelland and Stewart, 1997)I hesitate to call Don McKay a Canadian version of Hayden Carruth. For one thing, McKay hasn't been nearly as prolific. For another, Carruth has a much meaner streak of curmudgeonliness running through him that is positively delicious. Yet when I read Don McKay's wonderful poems, Carruth's name is the one I keep coming back to as the closest poetic equivalent to McKay's work. They both share a love of nature and the chops to communicate it; they both integrate modern sensibility into their poems with what seems minimal effort (and this is a very difficult thing for the nature poet to do); both release books that are guaranteed to charm your socks off. McKay, however, is a more (for lack of a more appropriate term) gentle poet. Apparatus is Governor General award winner McKay's eighth book, and it is a beautiful thing. Two of its sections, especially, deserve mention: "Materiel," a long meditation on Cain after he has killed Abel, and "Three Eclogues," three decent-sized poems written in, well, the style one would expect given the title. Apparatus was also a finalist for the Governor General's award (McKay's third nomination), but lost out to an equally deserving book (Dionne Brand's Land to Light On, also published by M&S). If you haven't yet discovered Don McKay, it will be worth your while to seek him out. If he can get a pave-the-earth person like me to stop and read nature poetry, imagine how good it will be for those who already love the stuff. **** |
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