Poetry by Men
The House on 14th Avenue is about paired and shared lives, featuring two people whose connection sometimes seemed forced and uneven. >>
Ferguson found escape from the parochial world of his working-class evangelical Baptist family through literature; in his twenties, that escape became literal, as he left the Maritimes and hitchhiked across the country, working odd jobs, experiences reflected in The Lost Cafeteria.
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Sommer extends the sonnet beyond its traditional territory of love between man and woman to embrace the natural world around him and the deteriorating ecology of the planet. The result is a rich weave of past and present, love and pain, language and world. >>
As they explore love and life balanced on the edge of a city, in a mobile home perched precariously, metaphorically on the fringe of society, the poems in The Trailer dig past the daily detritus of the forsaken lover's world of tin-walled hope and melamine dreams to reveal humour, beauty, and joy.
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The poems in The Unseen World leap out from the page and show us a world hiding beneath our perceived history and reality: dead Spanish poets in bus station gift shops, Soren Kierkegaard taking coffee at IKEA, and Henry Miller emerging from the 14th Street Subway are just a few of the evocative images David Elkins brings to the surface of a world unseen. >>
The poems in this collection explore themes of death and desire. They quest for balance in a world seemingly fraught with contradiction and loss. >>
These poems move from vivid fragments that capture the essence of Transcona—a suburban community stitched to the city of Winnipeg—to sensitive, self-referential engagement of the "lyric I"—a voice made up of melancholy, anxiety and psychotropic experience. >>
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