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Long Cold Green Evenings of Spring, The

by (author) Elisabeth Harvor

Publisher
Vehicule Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1998
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550650914
    Publish Date
    Jan 1998
    List Price
    $12.00

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Description

Both pastoral and medical elements play with themes of great emotional intensity in these innovative poems about infatuation, pottery-making, resentment, memory loss, illness, jealousy, and love. At long last a second poetry collection to follow the success of Fortress of Chairs.

About the author

Elisabeth Harvor (1936), recipient of the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in Literary Arts )2000), grew up in the Kennebecasis Valley, NB. Let Me be the One (1996), one of three collections of stories, was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for Fiction. Her first collection of poetry, Fortress of Chairs (1992), won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and she has won First Prize in the League of Canadian Poets' National Poetry Competition and The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize. Harvor has published a novel, Excessive Joy Injures The Heart (2002).

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Editorial Reviews

"Harvor displays the same remarkable insight into the human heart familiar to readers of her short stories."—Glen Downie, Event Magazine