The Essential Kay SmithOver the course of her lengthy career, New Brunswick poet Kay Smith published in some of Canada’s finest literary journals. Her work displays a sophisticated fusion of images, metaphors and symbols, forgoing clear connections in favour of fractured grammar, surprising diction and her own unique poetic mythology. In Smith’s poetry, images are not signs of meaning or emotion, but rather forms of being—underpinned by her religious faith, her aptitude for metaphysical inquiry and her belief in the purity and wonder of the imagined world.
The Essential Poets Series presents the works of Canada’s most celebrated poets in a package that is beautiful, accessible and affordable. The Essential Kay Smith is the twentieth volume in the increasingly popular series. |
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Contents
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New Poetry in Canada 1947 | 13 |
O Light Footnote to The Lords Prayer and Other Poems 1951 | 16 |
The Eye of Humility | 17 |
When a Girl Looks Down | 18 |
Integration | 19 |
Words for a Ballet | 20 |
from Footnote to The Lords Prayer | 21 |
Beach Scene 30 I Cradle a Stone in My Hand | 30 |
Return to Innocence | 31 |
Holland | 32 |
Cologne 33 On the Way to Heidelburg | 33 |
Somewhere after Innsbruck 34 Florence | 34 |
In These Nights | 35 |
Sometimes Bitterness Shaped Your Words | 36 |
Eyes | 37 |
Girl Napping | 23 |
Again with Music | 24 |
Autobiography | 25 |
Family Group At the Bottom of the Dark 1971 | 29 |
In These Autumn Days 38 In This Season of Frosts and Separation | 38 |
Where You Have Never Been | 39 |
Postscript | 40 |