 Moving Day
AUTHOR: Terence Young ISBN: 1897109113
In Moving Day, his impressive second collection of poetry, Terence Young bookends the fantastical with a series of lingering glances into his rear-view mirror and a few knowing observations on the journey so far. His subjects are those of every day: love, marriage, children, the inevitability of change. Some poems touch on the dreamy qualities of memory, its tendency to slip into the magical, and still others turn a quirky eye onto child-rearing, education, home repair. In Young's spirited poetry, the world can be both a dear and deceptive place. His is a landscape of conjecture about what is really going on, about the kind of doubt that is at its strongest when we first wake up and our dreams are still with us. In his world, an ordinary house can rise from its foundations and float over the horizon, taking its awe-struck, astonished occupants with it.
REVIEWS: "This West Coast poet is most interesting when he verges into daydream and fantasy, and becomes imagistically venturesome." (The Globe and Mail) "The voice is assured, the poet confident and skilled; none of the considerable technique exceeds the grasp. Yet the writing is playful and full of delightful surprises, too."(Books in Canada) "If in fact some of these poems take two or three readings to yield their full meaning, that is all to the good, for Young is a mature poet whose intelligence and insights one can trust." (Canadian Literature) "The poems in this collection both resonate with depth and reach for the stars."(The Danforth Review)
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