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Poetry Canadian

She Draws the Rain

by (author) Carole Chambers

Publisher
Thistledown Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2013
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781927068427
    Publish Date
    Mar 2013
    List Price
    $15.95

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Description

As an environmental activist and avid gardener Chambers has finely tuned her sensitivities to the magic and drama of nature. Her poetry uses this energy to describe the relationships that people have to the environment, to themselves and to each other. She Draws the Rain contains poems of both dream and vision in its exploration of the human condition. It also offers poems that are built on the science of knowing nature, knowing its rhythms, its seasons, its storms and the healing power it possesses. Chambers? poems name the unnameable and scatter fragments of truth that we all know but rarely think about. Weighing intuition against fact she offers new ways of seeing what is there by putting aside old, cold Reason/ again,/peering through the arrow slits/to the wide and teeming/world beyond.

About the author

Contributor Notes

Carole Chambers lives and writes on an island off the east coast of Vancouver Island. Hornby Island is a very special place of sea and ever changing sky and lush green and secret crannies. In Chambers — vision it becomes a living magical entity. She is finely tuned in to her physical environment and also to the social environment of the impact of nature on those immersed within it. Chambers has a life-long love of the Georgia Strait on Canada's west coast, she is an environmental activist with a serious social conscience who does not let her remoteness dull her world vision.