"The Long Walk carries a lifetime's force of meaning. A deeply beautiful book." Anne Michaels In The Long Walk, Jan Zwicky bears witness to environmental and cultural cataclysm. Both prophetic and acutely personal, these poems extend her previous meditations on colonial barbarism and ecocide, on spiritual catastrophe and transformation. The voice now penetrates the steepest darknesses; it possesses extraordinary reach and density. Zwicky is one of North America's finest poets and in this book she gives us her most profound work to date.
"The Long Walk carries a lifetime's force of meaning. A deeply beautiful book." Anne Michaels In The Long Walk, Jan Zwicky bears witness to environmental and cultural cataclysm. Both prophetic and acutely personal, these poems extend her previous meditations on colonial barbarism and ecocide, on spiritual catastrophe and transformation. The voice now penetrates the steepest darknesses; it possesses extraordinary reach and density. Zwicky is one of North America's finest poets and in this book she gives us her most profound work to date.
Courage I Into the Gap To the Pass Gate Break Securing the House Depth II Witness Near In the Shadow of a New Age Desire Grief - The Old Dream - Terminal - Night Farm - Leaving Intelligence Nocturne, Upper Gagetown, 21 August 1991 III Departure at Dawn Brahms: Ballade in B Minor, Opus 10 No. 4 Yes No Meditation Looking West from the Berkeley Hills Philosophy Physics IV Other People's Country Under the Storm The Ruined Garden Europe The Last Adagio Late Love Into the Dark Consummatum est Letter to Simplikios In Winter Humility Seeing Above the Falls Haydn: The Unpublished Sonatas Notes and Acknowledgements
Jan Zwicky âs books of poetry include Songs for Relinquishing the Earth , which won the Governor Generalâs Award, Robinsonâs Crossing , which won the Dorothy Livesay Prize, and, most recently Forge , which was short-listed for the Griffin Prize. Her books of philosophy include Wisdom & Metaphor , Lyric Philosophy , and Alkibiadesâ Love (forthcoming 2015).
"The Long Walk carries a lifetime's force of meaning. A deeply
beautiful book." Anne Michaels
"Full of grief and love, The Long Walk pushes us to have that
courage to look at what's painful to see, to find stillness in
movement, movement in stillness. If you need a motto for the new
year, solvitur ambulandoit is solved by walking." - Amy Reiswig,
Focus Magazine
"Zwicky accomplishes a concordance of rhythm, internal rhyme and
subtly linked imagery (e.g. "continents," "shapes," "sea") that, in
turn, enables the beloved to embody all the significance--all the
strength and frailty, beauty and terror--of the world." - ARC
Magazine
"Poems of exquisite lyric grace and deep feeling." - Toronto
Star
"A wide-ranging collection that addresses environmental devastation
and the ongoing refugee crisis alongside responses to Brahms and
Simplikios... The Long Walk is a rewarding read that secures Oskana
as an exciting new Prairie-based [series]." - Cassidy McFadzean,
SaskBooks
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