A Small Essay on the Largeness of Light and Other Poems
- Publisher
- Exile Editions
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2012
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550963014
- Publish Date
- Oct 2012
- List Price
- $16.95
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Description
Thoughtful and passionate, this imaginative collection of poetry explores the many facets of the aboriginal individual. Through meticulously crafted portraits, lyrics, satires, mythologies, and meditations, these poems discuss issues related to perception, desire, youth, and aging as they relate to native life.
About the author
Daniel David Moses, playwright and poet, is a Delaware who was born at Ohsweken, Ontario on the Six Nations lands. Now living in Toronto, he writes and works with Native and cross-cultural organizations. He is the author of Coyote City, nominated for the 1991 Governor General's Award for Drama, and The Dreaming Beauty, Big Buck City, Almighty Voice and His Wife, and The Mite Lines, a book of poetry. He is co-editor with Terry Goldie of An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English.