The Resumption of Play
by Gary Geddes
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Pub Date Apr 20 2016 | Archive Date Dec 03 2016
Description
The gripping title poem of The Resumption of Play, which won the 2015 Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, dramatizes the traumatic experience and enduring legacy of Canada’s Indian residential schools. The book is also about coming to terms with grief and loss, including a special elegiac sequence about the poet’s mother, dead at age 35, and another about Pound, Brodsky, Stravinsky and Diaghelev called “On Being Dead in Venice.” This exciting new cornucopia from one of Canada’s premier poets also includes two prison letters from Somalia and lyrics about Virginia Woolf, Bronwen Wallace, misogyny, obstacles to belief, and the healing power of poetry.
Advance Praise
I have been reading Mr. Geddes's poetry for over twenty-five years—reading it and re-reading it. From the very beginning of my acquaintance with his work, it has struck me as having the political edge of the best writing of the 20th century. It is not for nothing that others have compared his voice to the voices of Auden, Stendhal and Orwell.
Timothy Findley; novelist
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781927443873 |
| PRICE | CA$18.00 (CAD) |
