The Essential Tom Marshall: Essential Poets (Porcupine's Quill), cartea 09
Autor Tom Marshall Editat de David Helwig, Michael Ondaatjeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2012
Number nine in our series of Essential Poets, this newly selected, essential collection of Tom Marshall's poetry, co-edited by his friends David Helwig and Michael Ondaatje, pushes Marshall to his rightful place in the Canadian canon. Tom Marshall lived in Kingston for most of his adult life. During his short lifetime he made a substantial contribution to Canadian literature and culture, with ten published collections of poetry, four of critical essays and seven of fiction.
In this selected volume the reader will find verse from his early years, daring and inventive, imbuing the familiar Kingston landscape with an electric intensity. One of his earliest poems, Astrology', suggests Marshall's range of tones, the balance of humour and seriousness, and the way his poems remain lyrical even when he is writing of bitter love, self-abasement and "brilliant restless nights." Also included is more reflective poetry from later in his life, probing and elegant, as he struggled with an ambiguous relationship to his parents. But through them all one hears Marshall's distinctive voice, his shrewd irony, his daring intensity, his preoccupation with mortality and the enduring power of myth.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780889843530
ISBN-10: 0889843538
Pagini: 63
Dimensiuni: 140 x 213 x 5 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Editura: Porcupine's Quill
Seria Essential Poets (Porcupine's Quill)
ISBN-10: 0889843538
Pagini: 63
Dimensiuni: 140 x 213 x 5 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Editura: Porcupine's Quill
Seria Essential Poets (Porcupine's Quill)
Notă biografică
Tom Marshall was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, in April, 1938. He studied English and History at Queen's University in the late 1950s, returning to the school after graduation to complete a master's degree on the poetry of A M Klein. With David Helwig, Marshall was at the centre of a group of writers active in Kingston, where he began teaching at Queen's in 1964. As a poet, he is known for four linked collections (published between 1969 and 1976) of philosophical, meditative verse. The Silences of Fire (Macmillan 1969) is perhaps the best known of these, though all of them are neatly represented in a fifth book, The Elements (Oberon 1980). Marshall is also the author of seven novels, among them Rosemary Goal (Oberon 1978), a satire of academic and literary life, and Adele at the End of the Day (Macmillan 1987). Most important critically are The Psychic Mariner: A Reading of the Poems of D.H. Lawrence (1970) and Harsh and Lovely Land (1979), an incisive, insightful survey of contemporary Canadian poets and poetry. Marshall died at Kingston in 1993.
Cuprins
7 ForewordThe Silences of Fire (1969)11 The park is more like a wood 14 Autobiographies 15 Astrology 16 Speedboat 18 Derangement 19 Notes from a London Diary 21 Words in Exile 24 Interior Monologue #666 25 Coda: Macdonald ParkMagic Water (1971)26 Politics 28 from Islands 29 Strictly Personal 30 The ReturnThe Earthbook (1974)31 Qualifications 32 Other Qualifications 33 Legend 34 Second Legend 35 The Friends 36 The LambDance of the Particles (1984)39 Approaching 38 40 Christmas Travel Poem 41 Summer of Seventy-Seven 42 Field SyllabicsGhost Safari (1991)44 Dream Sequence 46 Daedelus, Icarus 49 "We are dying ..."Some Impossible Heaven of the Senses (1994)50 Flight 51 To Whom It May Concern 52 Wave Movements 54 The Mother 56 Words for HSKM 57 Voyages No Way 58 Sonnets of Scorpio 59 ( )60 About Tom Marshall63 A Bibliography
Recenzii
'I met Tom Marshall just the once, as I recall. In September of 1992, at the Grand Theatre on Princess Street in Kingston. The occasion was the book launch for Steven Heighton's Flightpaths of the Emperor. Al Purdy was there, and Carolyn Smart. We didn't sell as many books as I had hoped, or John Metcalf had rashly predicted, but then again, we never do. Tom Marshall was just fifty-five years old when he died the following year, so it is with an acute sense of responsibility to community that PQL is happy to partner with novelists David Helwig and Michael Ondaatje in publishing The Essential Tom Marshall.' -- Tim Inkster, publisher 'Over the two decades since Tom Marshall passed away, his poetry has become increasingly hard to find. The publication of The Essential Tom Marshall is a welcome corrective, restoring to us the poet's best work and also, in some ways, the man himself: psychic mariner, elemental lyricist, interpreter of the silences of fire, author of neglected small masterpieces like 'Autobiographies', 'Summer', 'Politics I & II' and 'We are dying ...' And Tom demonstrates in poems like 'The Mother' that in a few lines he can render characters as vivid as many fiction writers need a full novel to realize: 'She mouths her pieties/ but she hates God/ with splendid, unrecognized ferocity.' (In that last sentence I see I've used the present tense - Tom demonstrates - where before, when the poems were out of print, I would have used the elegiac past tense. How wonderful that this book makes possible such a restorative conjugation. And how it would delight the poet himself.)' -- Steven Heighton, author of Every Lost Country 'The poems in this posthumous selection would seem to contradict Tom Marshall's own lines: "Still, words/between the dead and the living/are difficult." These poems speak to us now as clearly and strongly as they ever did: unsettled and unsettling, sometimes evasive, often ecstatic, they are now also imbued with the augury of elegy, through no fault of his or our own. Dear Tom, you are still and always "protected by many [known and] unknown companions." -- Diane Schoemperlen, author of Man of My Dreams The Essential Tom Marshall embodies two aspirations: to sketch an overview of the poet's career, including less developed youthful work, and to mount a portrait of Marshall in the Canadian canon, based on his better-known material. This slim volume succeeds more as a primer than a definitive guide, but it is nevertheless an important first step in the restoration of a poet well worth getting acquainted with. -- Stevie Howell Quill & Quire Salon has written about The Porcupine's Quill's Essential series plenty already, and here we are again. This series is a precious examination of poetry in Canada. It is precious as both adjective and noun -- a slim 64 pages and with the subtle elegance of the press's handmade design, they're not to be overlooked and each edition is like a letter to a beloved. This most recent addition, The Essential Tom Marshall, was selected by David Helwig and Michael Ondaatje. I had never read Marshall before, but his thematic roots in the past, history and repetition easily resonate across the expanse from Kingston, Ont., to New Brunswick. Helwig and Ondaatje rightly point out in their foreword, "Everyone likes to believe that the best of poetry will endure, but it doesn't do so without help." The Porcupine's Quill is doing its part, now you must, too. -- Kate Wallace Telegraph-Journal 'The Essential Tom Marshall does its job incredibly well, celebrating a poetic gift that's both light and intense at the same time -- the simple structure and relatively easy language open up the depth and resonance of this work almost immediately.' -- Deanna McFadden My Tragic Right Hip '[The Essential Tom Marshall] is a book that you enjoy holding while you savour the poems it contains.' -- Jeanne Duperreault Book Discovery 'The Essential Tom Marshall is ... a lovely book both in terms of its content and its appearance, making it quite a pleasure to read, and the kind of book you'll pull off your shelf again and again.' -- Angela Hickman Books Under Skin