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Poetry Canadian

Words for Trees

by (author) Barbara Folkart

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2007
Category
Canadian, General, General
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781770706293
    Publish Date
    Jan 2007
    List Price
    $6.99
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781770706996
    Publish Date
    Jan 2007
    List Price
    $13.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888784360
    Publish Date
    Jan 2007
    List Price
    $13.95

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In this Ottawa writer’s first volume of verse, there are trees, of coursecatalpas on stained-glass transoms, an ever-present crabappel, nameless species in whose bare branches the winter solstice lurks. There is music, tooa whorehouse tango, a string quartet enthralling a favourite cat, the silky caress of a clarinet along the remembered flesh of adolescence. And visual art, from the Middle Ages through Matisse, is reenacted in vignettes of desire or dereliction.

About the author

Barbara Folkart studied medieval linguistics, literature and philology at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne) and the Université de Montréal. Her hands-on experience in working with medieval manuscripts, establishing manuscript genealogies and preparing scientific critical editions of medieval texts has given her a strong sense of how texts get corrupted when they are transcribed and transmitted, and has very definitely influenced her views on the transmission of information and esthetic values during the process of translation.

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