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Gypsy Guitar

by (author) David W. McFadden

Publisher
Talonbooks
Initial publish date
Jan 1987
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780889222502
    Publish Date
    Jan 1987
    List Price
    $18.95

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Description

David McFadden has set for himself, in this sequence of one hundred poems, a task both breathtaking in its scope and stunning in its accomplishment. By echoing with his gypsy guitar the troubadour tradition of the Languedoc, the great sonnet sequences of Petrarch and Shakespeare, the redefinitions of beauty and truth of the romantics, and the distractions and fragments of the post-moderns, he has created a celebration of the beloved in which recognition, intelligence and wit illuminate each sentimental, awkward, humorous, everyday moment. The elements of romance and betrayal in these poems shine through the darkness of their passion with a lucid, conscious attentiveness seldom seen since the great renaissance poets.

About the author

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David W. McFadden began his writing career as a journalist, and is the author of numerous volumes of non-fiction, fiction and poetry, including Gypsy Guitar (1987), which was nominated for the Governor General’s Award in 1988, There’ll Be Another (1995), and the third volume in his Terrafina Trilogy, Five Star Planet (2002). His most recent book of non-fiction available from Talonbooks is Great Lakes Suite (1997).

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Awards

  • Winner, Governor General's Literary Awards for Poetry

Editorial Reviews

“A masterpiece.”
— International Theatre Institute, UNESCO