Why Are You So Long and Sweet?
Collected Long Poems of David W. McFadden
- Publisher
- Insomniac Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2010
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897178935
- Publish Date
- Apr 2010
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
A companion volume toWhy Are You So Sad?—McFadden’sGriffin Prize–nominated book of selectedpoems—this book finally brings together, in oneplace, all of McFadden’s masterful long poems. Forsome poets, the long poem is an occasion to stretchone’s lyrical legs, try on different stylistic hats, or workout ideas too complex for shorter poems. For DavidMcFadden, the long poem is much, much more. Hereis McFadden’s prodigious imagination at full gallop,his language always mischievous and mesmerizing,spinning yarns both comic and cosmic.
About the author
David W. McFadden has been publishing poetry since the early 1960s. Why Are You So Sad? Selected Poems of David W. McFadden (Insomniac Press) was shortlisted for the 2008 Canadian Griffin Prize for Poetry, and Be Calm, Honey (Mansfield Press) was shortlisted for the 2009 Governor General’s Award for Poetry (his third such nomination). In 2013, McFadden won the Canadian Griffin Prize for Poetry for What’s the Score? (Mansfield Press). He is the author of about 30 books of poetry, fiction, and travel writing. McFadden lives in Toronto.