It’s a matter of knowing winter. Snowbird travels south, seeks warmth, and begins waiting. Robert Kroetsch’s new collection, The Snowbird Poems, is a brilliant flight of departure. Beached where he watches a drowning horizon, teased by romance, Snowbird lets his responses become a message in a bottle to the lost and for the found. Appearing at first wearing bifocals and drinking from a fake coconut, Snowbird goes on to retrieve the footprint of story from the ocean of memory.
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Robert Kroetsch was born in Heisler, Alberta, and published his first novel, But We are Exiles in 1965. His The Studhorse Man won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction.He has steadily elaborated his indelible mark on Canadian writing ever since with his fiction, nonfiction, poetry, teaching, and scholarship. He lives in Leduc, Alberta.
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An impressive anthology of the poetry,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Snowbird Poems (Currents in Canadian Literature) (Paperback)
The Snowbird Poems is an impressive anthology of the poetry of Canadian literary icon Robert Kroetsch. There is the matter of the crabapple tree./There it stands, wintering, you might say,/in the small front yard/between the veranda and the sidewalk.//Snow, you may have noticed, has seated itself/in the two wicker chairs on the veranda./As for the sidewalk,/we'll get to that in a moment.//The crabapple tree appears to be posing/for a woodcut, possible by Hiroshige,/his Japanese trees precise, angular, yet graceful/in their delicate tracings of snow.//But this is a January morning/on 18th Avenue SW, Calgary./I have just now shoveled the sidewalk/for the fifth time in the past three days.
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