What Does a House Want?: Selected Poems by Geddes, Gary

What Does a House Want?: Selected Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781597092760)

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What Does a House Want?: Selected Poems by Geddes, Gary

What Does a House Want?: Selected Poems

$19.95
What Does a House Want?: Selected Poems by Geddes, Gary

What Does a House Want?: Selected Poems

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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What Does a House Want? affirms Gary Geddess place as one of the premier Canadian poets of his generation. Equally at home with the lyric and the long poem, Geddes brings his "deadly accuracy in language and form" and his no-holds-barred style to bear on multinationals, Israeli-Palestinian violence, the guilt of Leon Trotsky, P.O.W.s, assassins, mad-bombers, China's bloody Emperor Qin Shi Huang, and the reputation of Ezra Pound. "Sandra Lee Scheuer," a lyric on the Kent State killings, has been described as "the kind of poem most poets wait a lifetime for;" and The Terracotta Army, an award-winning sequence on politics and art, insists on the marriage of story and song, embracing narrative, yet achieving a rare and luminous lyric intensity.

Author: Gary Geddes
ISBN-10: 1597092762
ISBN-13: 9781597092760
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Language: English
Published: 03/08/2014
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.40w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/15/2014 pg. 86
By Gary Geddes
By Gary Geddes
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Gary Geddes has written and edited more than forty books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama, criticism, translation, and anthologies, and won a dozen national and international literary awards, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Americas Region), the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence, and the Gabriela Mistral Prize from Chile, which was awarded simultaneously to Octavio Paz, Vaclav Havel, Ernesto Cardenal, Rafael Alberti, and Mario Benedetti. When not serving as Distinguished Professor at Western Washington University or Visiting Writer at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, he resides on Thetis Island, British Columbia.

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