| Author: | Patrick Friesen | ISBN: | 9781771310789 |
| Publisher: | Brick Books | Publication: | March 15, 1997 |
| Imprint: | Brick Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Patrick Friesen |
| ISBN: | 9781771310789 |
| Publisher: | Brick Books |
| Publication: | March 15, 1997 |
| Imprint: | Brick Books |
| Language: | English |
Shortlisted for the 1997 Governor General's Award for Poetry Set firmly at the end of the millennium, A Broken Bowl takes on the burden of history, with its heaped atrocities, its unimaginable sufferings. This long poem is an angry lament, a summoning of fragments, a meditation in the midst of an exhausted world. By turns lyric, satiric, elegiac and incantatory, A Broken Bowl is filled with passionate elemental writing in the tradition of Howl and Crow.
Shortlisted for the 1997 Governor General's Award for Poetry Set firmly at the end of the millennium, A Broken Bowl takes on the burden of history, with its heaped atrocities, its unimaginable sufferings. This long poem is an angry lament, a summoning of fragments, a meditation in the midst of an exhausted world. By turns lyric, satiric, elegiac and incantatory, A Broken Bowl is filled with passionate elemental writing in the tradition of Howl and Crow.
