Reasons for Winter
- Publisher
- Brick Books
- Initial publish date
- Nov 1991
- Category
- Canadian
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781771312387
- Publish Date
- Nov 1991
- List Price
- $11.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780919626515
- Publish Date
- Jan 1992
- List Price
- $9.95
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Winner of the 1992 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (QSPELL, now the Quebec Writers Federation) and shortlisted for the 1991 Pat Lowther Award
Naomi Guttman's first collection of poems marks the appearance of a deeply emotional, highly intelligent new voice. Its theme is intimacy -- ours, especially women's, experience of intimacy in many forms, how it marks us, how we long for it, the ways in which it is both our fulfilment and our undoing. The personae range from children to old men and women, jailbirds to schoolgirls; the language is chosen without ever becoming deliberate, precise but always musical. These are poems from and of the heart, chastened by experience, taut with craft.
About the author
Naomi Guttman
's first book of poems, Reasons for Winter, won the A.M. Klein Award for Poetry. Her second, Wet Apples, White Blood, was co-winner of the Adirondack Center for Writing's Best Book of Poems for 2007. Raised in Montreal, she now teaches creative writing at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY.