a cappella
Selected and New Poems
- Publisher
- Ronsdale Press
- Initial publish date
- Jun 1994
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780921870241
- Publish Date
- Jun 1994
- List Price
- $10.95
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Description
These poems employ the short lyric as it derives from the haiku tradition. Through progressions of image clusters, anne mckay captures states of experience that elude the conscious mind: "but young / was there / . . . and heat / hung with scarlet hurry / and gates forgotten / under sly and hunting moons / of summer hurting." A high point of the collection is the sequence celebrating the life and paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe.
About the author
Anne McKay was born in Ottawa, Ontario and is now living in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has won several awards for her writing. She is currently working on her twelfth book.