Book description
One of Canada's most distinguished poets and winner of the Governor General's Award in 1979 for Poems New and Selected , Patrick Lane deserves much admiration for his remarkable poetic achievement. This new volume of his verse traces the evolution of his work and includes both poetry from his previously…
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1 author picked Poems as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I can’t create a list of recommended books based on books I love without Patrick Lane’s 1978 Poems: New and Selected.
Every author remembers that book, the one that both showed them what writing could do and inspired them to try it, too. For me, this book is the perfect marriage between down-to-earth-and-sometimes-unbearably-painful life and sublimely beautiful language.
This book is what I’d show you if you asked me what the saying means, “Hymns to the light are best sung in darkness.”
From Richard's list on answering sorrow with understanding.
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