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In The Vision of Birds

by (author) Steve Luxton

Publisher
DC Books
Initial publish date
Jul 2012
Category
Canadian
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781897190845
    Publish Date
    Jul 2012
    List Price
    $31.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781897190838
    Publish Date
    Mar 2012
    List Price
    $16.95

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Description

An avid fisherman, canoeist, and hiker, Luxton explores and records in memorable detail the region around his home in Quebec. This collection brings together for the first time 35 years of his best nature poems, including new and previously unpublished work. Influenced by fellow Eastern Townshippers, F. R. Scott, Louis Dudek, Ralph Gustafson, and D.G. Jones, Luxton has developed a mature and authoritative voice uniquely his own. Rich in language and metaphor, these poems dazzle at times with their depth and dissolve the barrier between Man and Nature. With a true and finely honed poetic gift, unsentimentally post-pastoral, Luxton vividly portrays the natural world's green particulars?what the Zen Buddhists term “The Ten Thousand Things?.

About the author

Born in England, Steve Luxton immigrated as a child to Toronto, Canada. He gained a BA in Political Science and Economics from the University of Toronto, and an MA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University where he studied under the poets W.D. Snodgrass and Phillip Booth. He has taught literature and creative writing at Champlain, Vanier, and John Abbott Colleges, as well as at Bishop's and Concordia Universities. In addition to the chapbook, Torrent's Gate: Thomas Wolfe Visits Quebec, he has published five volumes of poetry: Late Romantics (with Robert Allen and Mark Teicher), The Hills that Pass By, Iridium, Luna Moth and Other Poems, and In The Vision of Birds. In recognition for his energetic support and promotion of English-language literature in Quebec, he was awarded the Quebec Writers' Federation's Judy Mappin Community Prize. He lives with his wife the poet Angela Leuck in the Eastern Townships' village of Hatley.

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