Vis à Vis: Field notes on Poetry & Wilderness

by Don Mckay

2021-01-08 10:20:44

In Vis à Vis, Don McKay charts a vision of poetics that keeps its feet on the ground and its eyes on the horizon. As one of Canada''s leading poets, McKay has long been known for his passionate engagement with his natural surroundings. This book col... Read more

In Vis à Vis, Don McKay charts a vision of poetics that keeps its feet on the ground and its eyes on the horizon. As one of Canada''s leading poets, McKay has long been known for his passionate engagement with his natural surroundings. This book collects three essays on this relationship, together with new and previously published poems that further demonstrate these ideas. Using bushtits, baler twine, Heidegger and Levinas, McKay sets out to explore some of the almost unspeakable concepts driving the use of language particular to poets, and the arguably skewed relationship human beings have with their natural surroundings.

In a book the Globe & Mail calls "stylishly constructed" and "impeccably casual," one of Canada''s best-loved writers offers his own sense of poetics.

Finalist for the 2002 Governor General''s Award for Nonfiction.

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Book Details

File size8 X 5.5 X 0.5 in
Print pages112
PublisherGaspereau Press Ltd.
Publication date October 1, 2001
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781894031509

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