Always Now: From elsewhere ; Winter sun ; The dumbfounding ; Translations

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The Porcupine's Quill, 2003 - Poetry - 256 pages
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Always Now, Collected Poems of Margaret Avison, encompasses in three volumes all of the published books, from Winter Sun (1960) to Concrete and Wild Carrot (2002), and is framed by a gathering of uncollected and new poems respectively. When complete, Always Now will present all of the poems, up to 2002, that Margaret Avison wishes to preserve. Volume One extends from the uncollected poems to Avison's translations of Hungarian poems, and includes Winter Sun and The Dumbfounding. Besides the uncollected surprises, two of them dating to high school days and first published in Hermes, Toronto's Humberside Collegiate literary magazine, there are the loved and familiar early poems, just as fresh now as they were then, from which certain wonderful lines still jump out: `Nobody stuffs the world in at your eyes./ The optic heart must venture'; `In the mathematics of God/ there are percentages beyond one hundred.' Margaret Avison's poems have warmed the hearts and enlarged the thinking of two generations of Canadian readers.

 

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Contents

Foreword
13
The Valiant Vacationist
27
The Typographers Ornate Symbol at the End of a Chapter or a Story
40
The Apex Animal
53
Civility a Bogey or Two Centuries of Canadian Cities
66
Unbroken Lineage
70
Grammarian on a Lakefront Park Bench
77
Banff
83
A Conversation
123
A Friends Friend
129
Old Young
147
MicroMetro
154
July Man
160
The Store Seeds
168
For Tinkers Who Travel on Foot
174
Branches
185

The Swimmers Moment
89
Easter
95
Watershed
101
Rich Boys Birthday through a Window
109
Rigor Viris
115
Span
122
Person
191
Five Breaks
193
The Christians Year in Miniature
206
In a Season of Unemployment
219
Of Tyranny in One Breath
236
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About the author (2003)

Margaret Avison was born April 23, 1918 in Galt, Ontario. She was raised in Regina and Calgary. She earned her degree from the University of Toronto, 1936 to 1940 and her M.A. from 1963 to 1965. She spent 8 months in Chicago on a Guggenheim Scholarship and two years' teaching at Scarborough College, University of Toronto from 1967 to 1968. She worked for eight months from 1973 to 1974 at the University of Western Ontario as Writer-in-Residence. Avison has won several leading awards; two of her books have won the Governor General's Award and her book Concrete and Wild Carrot won the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2003. Margaret Avison died in August 2007 in Toronto.

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TitleAlways Now: From elsewhere ; Winter sun ; The dumbfounding ; Translations
Volume 1 of Always Now: The Collected Poems, Margaret Avison
AuthorMargaret Avison
Editionillustrated
PublisherThe Porcupine's Quill, 2003
ISBN0889842620, 9780889842625
Length256 pages
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Poetry / American / General
Poetry / Canadian / General
Poetry / Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious
  
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