Sleeping in Tall Grass
eBook - PDF

Sleeping in Tall Grass

  1. 88 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Sleeping in Tall Grass

About this book

"My emptiness will not befrenetic with the frictionof my father's silencesbut still as the unmarked gravesof his many forgotten selves"—From "Salt"A cycle of poems, Sleeping in Tall Grass takes an unsparing look at a painful, sometimes abusive, yet strangely redemptive family story enfolded within the body of the Canadian prairie itself—at once physical, historical, and metaphysical. These intensely personal poems reflect the complex relationships between sound and space, language and silence. Treating time as more layered than sequential, they reflect a process of organic composition distilled from Therrien's iterative observations and utterances. This is writing that reaches "into the very grain of existence"—a sonorous re-presentation of the human presence on the dispassionate but eternally giving plains.

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Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraphs
  6. Contents
  7. I
  8. II
  9. III
  10. IV
  11. V
  12. VI
  13. Envoy
  14. Notes
  15. Acknowledgements
  16. About the Author
  17. Other Titles from The University of Alberta Press