ISBN:
9780889224179
Pages: 160 pp
Pub. Date:
January 1 1999
Dimensions: 9" x 6.0625" x 0.5"
Rights: Available: WORLD
Categories
Poetry / POE011000
- POETRY / Canadian
News & Smoke includes selections from all six of Thesen’s previous books (of which only Aurora remains in print); unpublished poems from the fifteen year period of the late 70s to the mid 90s; as well as some work previously published only in magazines. All of the work is imbued with a spare, meticulous rigour, creating lines of a clear, pale light, punctuated by bursts of intense, flowering, staining colour-“odd graces of beauty, in whatever form, that make things real again.”
“A compact and beautifully designed collection, nicely fleshed out with a broad selection of poems previously published only in journals and periodicals, not to mention its tantalizing sampling of new fare. Many will discover plenty to admire in News and Smoke. “
— Toronto Star
