Sheets of Glass
- Publisher
- Goose Lane Editions
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1991
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780864920959
- Publish Date
- Jan 1991
- List Price
- $9.95
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Where to buy it
Out of print
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Description
For Mark Henderson, a gesture, a dream-fragment or a bit of resurgent memory can lead to a poem. In Sheets of Glass, a collection which won the Alftred G. Bailey Prize in 1990, he draws upon remnants of ancestral memory and recollections from his own childhood to create poems with delicate imagery and a strong, narrative line. Whether writing about his mother, "a small hunched figure/supporting the roof of the world," or his grandmother's hands, "delicate trellises/sprayed with ivory, violet-vined," he demonstrates a remarkable ability to discover the extraordinary in the everyday, the image in the object.
About the author
Mark Henderson teaches English at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John. Sheets of Glass is his first full-length collection of poems.