Cardinal in the Eastern White Cedar

Author: Roo Borson
Publisher: MCCLELLAND STEWART
Category: Poetry Books, Poetry By Individual Poets
Book Format: Paperback

A captivating and poignant new collection of poetry from Griffin Poetry Prize winner Roo Borson that probes some of our most important questions.


After Roo Borson's two previous collections -- Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida and Rain; road; an open boat -- set the seasons in motion, focusing the poet's mind on time, mortality, transience, and absence, Cardinal in the Eastern White Cedar arrives to complete the triptych. From the glittering, classically rendered image to a freighted, lucid, narrative line, Borson's voice can shift and refract while holding true to the momentary facts of the shifting, given world. Her meditations are a kind of fidelity to inquiry, to attachment, to what can't be fully known. Here the distant past collides with the near future, the present opens suddenly into another age, and friendship becomes the measure of time's salience. Cardinal in the Eastern White Cedar depicts what vanishes, the various modest homes where half-remembered lives all flow toward their common end. Roo Borson has crowned a sustained achievement with a work of startling intimacy and vividness.

About Roo Borson
ROO BORSON has published thirteen previous books of poems, including Rain; road; an open boat and Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida, winner of the Governor General's Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Griffin Poetry Prize. She has also won awards for her essays. With Kim Maltman, she writes and translates collaboratively under the pen name Baziju. She lives in Toronto.

(BK-9780771012242)

SKU BK-9780771012242
Barcode # 9780771012242
Brand MCCLELLAND STEWART
Artist / Author Roo Borson
Shipping Weight 0.3700kg
Shipping Width 0.150m
Shipping Height 0.010m
Shipping Length 0.210m
Assembled Length 21.400m
Assembled Height 0.800m
Assembled Width 14.700m
Type Paperback

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