Leavings: Selected Poems 1990-2021 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798822919747)

David Cottingham (b. 1949) has been writing poems, off and on, most of his life. His "career"--and the places he has lived and loved, from the plains and mountains of western Canada to the New England coast to the backroads of Europe viewed from a bike--has been as varied as the selections featured in this volume. He has been a taxi driver, hydrocarbon well-log analyst (in oilpatch-speak, a "mud-logger"), multilingual font designer, and copyeditor. He insists that he is not a poet, but an ordinary guy who occasionally writes poems. This collection is his first attempt to assemble them as a book, and he offers them as glimpses of one man's irregular quest to grasp reality and make sense of the world, construed with a quirky religious edge--

as if it was all granted on probation by a stern but provident eternitude, fiercely benign, shrewdly forbearing.


Author: D. C. Cottingham
ISBN-10: 8822919742
ISBN-13: 9798822919747
Publisher: Palmetto Publishing
Language: English
Published: 10/31/2023
Pages: 142
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.33d