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Poetry Canadian

The Self of Loss

New and Selected Poems

by (author) Dorothy Roberts

Publisher
Goose Lane Editions
Initial publish date
Jan 1976
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780919197879
    Publish Date
    Jan 1976
    List Price
    $5.95

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Out of print

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Description

An impressive collection of poems by a master in the field. Many of the poems in the collection have been anthologized in many different books and journals.

About the author

Dorothy Roberts (1906-1993) was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Despite an itinerant childhood and an adult life spent primarily in the United States, her poetry remained rooted in her native land. The daughter of Theodore Goodridge Roberts and niece of Charles G. D. Roberts, she was encouraged by her family early on to write poetry. When she was twenty-one her first poetry chapbook, Songs for Swift Feet, was published under the pen name Gostwick Roberts. After years of raising a family and publishing short stories, she went on to write six more volumes of poetry, often featuring themes of nature, memory and the passage of time, with an emphasis on feelings of alienation and exile from her native land. Roberts died in Pennsylvania, her home for several decades, but was buried in Fredericton near the river she had loved since childhood.

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