The Fly in Autumn (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781550174687)

Selected for Poetry in Transit 2009

The Fly in Autumn is a nuanced work with an absurdist twist in which recognizable landscapes--of North Vancouver quays and piers and harbour fog--are sometimes irrevocably altered by water-light into places of the mind alive with the hundred thousand thoughts everyone collects in a day. Risking unease, using language both tender and ironic, Zieroth's poems range from the cockiness of flight, from Dick and Jane readers to insurance clerks and blind nurses, and to the inevitability of decline. Still, the poet remains alert to the re-emergence of his boyhood hope: to be brave, to ship out, to learn to sleep on waves.

Author: David Zieroth
ISBN-10: 1550174681
ISBN-13: 9781550174687
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Language: English
Published: 05/25/2009
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.30d
Award: Governor General's Literary Awards - Winner