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Poetry Canadian

Sheets of Glass

by (author) Mark Henderson

Publisher
Goose Lane Editions
Initial publish date
Jan 1991
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780864920959
    Publish Date
    Jan 1991
    List Price
    $9.95

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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.

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