- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: McClelland & Stewart; 1 edition (Mar 16 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0771015917
- ISBN-13: 978-0771015915
- Product Dimensions: 14.5 x 0.6 x 21.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 612 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #378,750 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This collection, which won the 2004 Governor General's Award for Poetry, includes meditative poems influenced by the masters of old Japan as well as three short essays: a reflection on the death of the poet's mother ("Persimmons"), a memory of talking a young girl on a bridge out of suicide, and ruminations on a journey upriver taken by the Japanese poet, Basho, in the 1600s. Borson, like Basho before her, believes nature itself is poetry. The signal that Borson is a master of natural images appears early, when she states in the first poem ("Summer Grass") that willows transform themselves into "dragons in leaf, draped scales." A close engagement with the seasons marks the collection: a god turns over in its sleep "and so spring comes"; "against autumn's enameled blue skies," "the dye runs and it's summer."
The language is rich, filled with grace and delicacy, and refreshingly positive: the "banjo frogs," the crickets ringing out "good house, good house," "what shrivels the leaves still fattens the eels." The poems reference numerous classical musicians: Bach, Beethoven, Hindemith, Chopin, Satie, and, indeed, the tone of the collection emanates the quiet, soothing qualities of the great composers. But as if to prove she is still part of this modern world, Borson can throw out a line striking in its contrast and modernity: "No one about (it's Sunday), but an empty phone-box outside the Mobil station keeps ringing and ringing." --Mark Frutkin
Review
“Roo Borson invites us to embark on a meditative, imaginative and spiritual journey. This book has a profound inner life. It is resonant and whole, moving with quiet, apparently easy steps into the depth of human experience.”
–Jury citation, Governor General’s Award
In poetry, few things matter so much as a hungry eye, a fresh way of responding to the world… Roo Borson is a true original.”
–Maclean’s
“She’s become one of the best-known Canadian poets of her generation. She’s a clear writer, clear-minded, with a dark and musical imagination.”
–Washington Post
“She absorbs one totally, dissolving the conventional distinctions between body, mind, and heart.”
–Globe and Mail
“To read her poetry is to make an exhilarating discovery.”
–Toronto Star
–Jury citation, Governor General’s Award
In poetry, few things matter so much as a hungry eye, a fresh way of responding to the world… Roo Borson is a true original.”
–Maclean’s
“She’s become one of the best-known Canadian poets of her generation. She’s a clear writer, clear-minded, with a dark and musical imagination.”
–Washington Post
“She absorbs one totally, dissolving the conventional distinctions between body, mind, and heart.”
–Globe and Mail
“To read her poetry is to make an exhilarating discovery.”
–Toronto Star
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