A Broken Bowl

by Patrick Friesen

Overview

Shortlisted for the 1997 Governor General's Award for Poetry Set firmly at the end of the millennium, A Broken Bowl takes on the burden of history, with its heaped atrocities, its unimaginable sufferings. This long poem is an angry lament, a summoning of fragments, a meditation in the midst of an exhausted world. By turns lyric, satiric, elegiac and incantatory, A Broken Bowl is filled with passionate elemental writing in the tradition of Howl and Crow.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771310789
Publisher:	Brick Books
Publication date:	03/15/1997
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	630 KB

About the Author

Patrick Friesen is the author of Blasphemer's Wheel, winner of the Manitoba Book of the Year Award and runner-up for the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award. A Broken Bowl was shortlisted for the 1997 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. His most recent work is Earth’s Crude Gravities. He lives in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia. He has retired from full-time teaching and is now writing and working at various gigs when they crop up.

Editorial Reviews

" ... A powerful lamentation and perhaps also a necessary catharsis." Ñ Glen Downie, Event

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