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Poetry Canadian

Ladder to the Moon

by (author) Douglas Burnet-Smith

Publisher
Brick Books
Initial publish date
Oct 1988
Category
Canadian
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781771312042
    Publish Date
    Oct 1988
    List Price
    $11.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780919626362
    Publish Date
    Jan 1988
    List Price
    $9.95

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In his fifth book of poetry, Douglas Burnet Smith tunes his eye and ear closely to the world, conscious of those points where the everyday blossoms into fierce magic. The title sequence is a deftly-rendered homage to the work of Georgia O’Keeffe.

About the author

Douglas Burnet Smith (1949) has served as President of the League of Canadian Poets and of the Public Lending Right Commission of Canada. He teaches at St. Francis Xavier University. Smith was nominated for the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 1993 for Voices from a Farther Room (1992) and for the Atlantic Poetry Prize for his most recent collection, The Killed (2000).

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