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Mosaic Orpheus

by (author) Peter Scott

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2009
Category
General
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773577961
    Publish Date
    Apr 2009
    List Price
    $16.95

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Description

Working always to connect the polemical to the personal, Peter Dale Scott's political poems - from the tear gas of Berkeley protests in the 1960s to the problems of Thai forest monks in an era of drug-trafficking and deforestation - are a process of self-questioning. Self-questioning also marks his meditation poems, including a sequence on the death of his first wife.

In opposition to contemporary poems of studied meaninglessness, Scott increasingly recognizes a compulsion in himself to radically reaffirm traditional rejections of the external world and turn to the refuges of poets before him, the enduring commonplaces that are more than cliches.

About the author

Peter Scott is a retired Memorial University of Newfoundland professor, and former curator of the Agnes Marion Ayre Herbarium in St. John's. His research interests include flora of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, plant ecology, and biotechnology. He is author of several books, including Wildflowers of Newfoundland and Labrador. He is also a gardening commentator for radio and television programs.

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