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Poetry Canadian

Fireflies in the Magnolia Grove

by (author) John Smith

Publisher
Acorn Press
Initial publish date
Jul 2004
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781894838108
    Publish Date
    Jul 2004
    List Price
    $15.95

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Description

In this, John Smith's sixth book of poetry, Prince Edward Island's inaugural Poet Laureate offers up a dialogue about "being," in the intellectual context of modern times. He explores stages of being, as an individual, as one in relationship to others, and as a part of the earth and of the universe. The poet's acquaintance with physics, algebra, and geometry collides with his own philosophical questionings, using language to bridge the ephemeral and the infinite. The poems are the distilled, heady musings of a writer whose poetic voice spans millennia.

About the author

John Smith (1927) taught high school English in Toronto, and earned an MA in English at the University of Toronto. In 1967, he moved to Prince Edward Island, where he was a professor of English at the University of Prince Edward Island until his retirement in 1992. Smith's new manuscript is a collection of sonnets called Fireflies in the Magnolia Grove.

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