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Poetry Canadian

Taste of Water

by (author) Frank Ledwell

Publisher
Acorn Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2007
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781894838252
    Publish Date
    Jan 2007
    List Price
    $15.95

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Description

The taste of water is something we all know but need to be reminded of once in a while: how it tastes of shared memory, and of what it means to be human, and of the earth.

Prince Edward Island's second Poet Laureate, Frank Ledwell, invites us to enter his words and world, seeking to share a sense of our common humanity and our interdependent fates, and to recognize communal experience in the particularities of personal experience.

The traditional role of the Poet Laureate is to mark occasions, and Ledwell's poems masterfully make quotidian Island events and lives into special occasions that sing with the "spirit of the spoken word taking hold."

About the author

Frank Ledwell is professor emeritus of English at the University of Prince Edward Island and one of the Island’s foremost poets and storytellers

Frank Ledwell's profile page