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Poetry Canadian

House of Cedars

by (author) Gwyladys Downes

Publisher
Ekstasis Editions
Initial publish date
Sep 1999
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781896860473
    Publish Date
    Sep 1999
    List Price
    $12.95

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Description

The well-crafted poems of House of Cedars display a wide stylistic range that integrates emotion and intellect. In these poems peopled with characters from dream or mirror worlds a reader will find metaphors capable of performing incisive surgery on flesh and mind.

About the author

Gwladys V. Downes was born on April 22, 1915, in Victoria BC. She attended the University of British Columbia, the University of Toronto, and the Sorbonne, and worked as a French professor at the University of Victoria. As well as writing her own poetry, Downes translates the work of Quebec poets. She died in 2005.

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