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Smithereens

Smithereens

Young, Terence

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General Poetry

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ISBN10: 1550179438
ISBN13: 9781550179439
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Published: Oct 12 2021
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

In Smithereens, Terence Young ranges widely among forms, subjects, tones and moods, invoking the domestic world of family and home, as well as the associated realms of work and play. He describes the simple pleasure of losing one's bearings and seeing the world anew in Tender is the Night, and in The Bear he records the near-magical appearance at a summer cabin of a creature that hasn't been seen in the area in over fifty years. The ironic benefits of a house fire, the late-night sounds of a downtown alley, the smells of a summer morning in the Gulf islands--all of these serve as vehicles for reminiscence, meditation and humour. Elsewhere in the collection, he summons an elegiac mood, remembering in poems like Surcease, Fern Island Candle, The Morning Mike Dies, and Gary some of the friends who have left his world. More than any of his previous books, though, Smithereens features poems that are playful, in which language is often associative, surprising and fun. It is a collection that will reward readers, whatever their temperament upon picking it up, and it will also invite them to return to its pages again and again.

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