Concrete and Wild Carrot

by Margaret Avison

Overview

Winner of the 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize and of the 2003 CAA Jack Chalmers Poetry Award and Globe 100 book for 2003 In Margaret Avison's new poems, little pleasures are bound up with larger ones. Her slightest subjects -- beloved Toronto parks with their population of oaks, firs, squirrels, dogs, kids, even ants, and the minutest sighs of her contemporary urban soundscape -- all have their being within an immense composition that calls and hauls us to a largeness, a category-breaking "always unthinkable" beyond.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771312851
Publisher:	Brick Books
Publication date:	09/15/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	319 KB

About the Author

Margaret Avison was born in Ontario. She attended public school in Western Canada, high school and university in Toronto. She spent eight months in Chicago in 1956-57, on a Guggenheim Foundation Grant. She has worked in libraries, publishing houses, universities, archives, and missions, was writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario in 1972-73. In 1985 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. She was awarded three honorary degrees and two Governor General’s Awards for Poetry (for Winter Sun and No Time). In 2003 she was the winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize and the CAA Jack Chalmers Poetry Award and received a Globe 100 citation for her book Concrete and Wild Carrot.

Editorial Reviews

" ... Amounts to a beautiful argument for Ongoingness, and open-heartedness ... these poems have won us outright by virtue of their unflagging precision, notional complexity and exuberance ... If lyric poetry has a country, welcome to its capital."—Ken Babstock, The Globe and Mail

"Margaret Avison is a national treasure. For many decades she has forged a way to write, against the grain, some of the most humane, sweet, and profound poetry of our time."—from The Griffin Poetry Prize Judges' Citation

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