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Washita: New Poems

Washita: New Poems

Lane, Patrick

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ISBN10: 1550176765
ISBN13: 9781550176766
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Published: Oct 25 2014
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
Awards: Governor General's Literary Awards
Lane is a poet more of the individual, hard-hitting poem; like physical blows, he wields his pieces like small threats of intense beauty.
--Globe and Mail

Following the success of his award-winning memoir There is a Season (2004) and his bestselling novel Red Dog, Red Dog (2008), Patrick Lane felt his celebrated poetry career might be at an end and published his Collected Poems in 2011. But the process of revisiting his collected poetic works rekindled his first love and launched him on a new phase of poetry composition that resulted in this impressive and distinctive new book.

Honest and self-aware, Washita evokes some of the most inexpressible experiences a human being can undergo: the loss of a parent, the breakdown of a body, the perversion of nature, the acquiring of wisdom. In Hard-Rock, a boy begins to understand that his father will die: His lungs created elaborate cathedrals from quartz dust, / a crystal symphony playing Mahler under water. In Submission, a speaker struggles with losing his sight, capable only of expressing himself through metaphor. But amid this darkness sparks an awareness of the artistry of the world: Vete a la mierda, hijo de puta! / Hate is beautiful in Spanish.

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