- Paperback: 120 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Canada; First Edition 1st Printing edition (April 1 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0143168649
- ISBN-13: 978-0143168645
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.8 x 0.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 118 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #301,981 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This first collection of poems by well-known fantasy writer Guy Gavriel Kay (Sailing to Sarantium, The Lions of Al-Rassan) is a mix of personal lyrics, travel poems, longer narrative pieces, and poems that reference various historical myths, especially those of ancient Greece. Many of the lyric poems concern Kay's relationships and separations. They are lightly emotive and at times bordering on the sentimental. The longer poems are somewhat stronger, especially the lovely, sad opening piece, which concerns a visit to Winnipeg, his childhood hometown, where "each address marks a grave" and his long-dead father has "more and more long years of being gone / still to come." The poems of travel are set in places such as Greece, Croatia, London, Cornwall, and Wales, and although they are poems of near and far, they always strike a personal note, being more about the poet's state of mind than the view from a window.
Part 3, which includes most of the mythological poems, is a classical forest of proper names that will send the reader back to Bulfinch's Mythology to seek clarification on Orpheus, Medea, Psyche, and others. The author is capable of some fine lines: "A song of loss . . . to bend the starlight / streaming to the world" and "He thrills to the tight hum / of the right words coming." Too often, though, the poems disappear into the personal and lack heightened language or complex rhythms. When Kay gets the tone right, however, with the perfect amount of low-key sentiment, sadness, or ebullience, as in his longer poems, the result can be engaging. --Mark Frutkin --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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. . . Kay has a gift . . . reading his poetry is like lifting a seashell to one’s ear and hearing the distant echo of the ocean where it was born. -- Alma A. Hromic, SF Site, May 5, 2003
. . . these poems celebrate imaginative connection: to people, to place, and to both private and cultural history. -- Winnipeg Free Press, March 23, 2003
Kay’s images are translucent, his poetry modern in form and yet with an instinctive in innate classicism which speaks to me. -- Alma A. Hromic, SF Site, May 5, 2003 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
. . . these poems celebrate imaginative connection: to people, to place, and to both private and cultural history. -- Winnipeg Free Press, March 23, 2003
Kay’s images are translucent, his poetry modern in form and yet with an instinctive in innate classicism which speaks to me. -- Alma A. Hromic, SF Site, May 5, 2003 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
ignore the 1-star review, for the good of the human race ...,
By A Customer
This review is from: Beyond This Dark House (Hardcover)
Who's the idiot who wrote, "the book had a nausighating plot and horrible character developement. The book was just a mish-mash of quantitative trash. Please, for the good of the human race"This is a book of poetry, for heaven's sake. Poetry isn't supposed to have a plot or characters. And by the way, "quantitative" means numerical, as in scientific. So you're completely wrong on both counts. It's a fine book.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Master of the craft,
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This review is from: Beyond This Dark House (Hardcover)
Guy's poetry has long been read in short pieces during reading of his long novels. For the first time many of his poems are laid out for the reader. He is a master craftsman.
0 of 36 people found the following review helpful
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horrific,
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This review is from: Beyond This Dark House (Hardcover)
the book had a nausighating plot and horrible character developement. The book was just a mish-mash of quantitative trash. Please, for the good of the human race, DON'T READ THIS BOOK!
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