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The Whole Elephant

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  • Publisher:
    Brick Books, 1989
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Cookshaw, Marlene
    Date:
    Created
    1989
    Summary:

    Shortlisted for the 1990 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry (BC Book Prizes)

    Marlene Cookshaw is a Cheshire cat of a poet whose naturally realized details illuminate a shifting wholeness on the "singing edge" between dream and waking. Hers is a quilted language at once covering and revealing our fascinating ordinariness. The long poem "In The Swim" subtly captures the desperate and humourous beauty of a seemingly plain life closely observed. Other poems leap with deftness and daring across the open plain of our lives, leaving images so strong, so strange, they verge on myth.

    Genre:
    Canadian poetry, Poetry
    Subject(s): Canadian poetry
    Original Publisher: London, Brick Books
    Language(s): English
    Collection(s)/Series: Brick Books Poetry