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Wanting the Day: Selected Poems
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Wanting the Day: Selected Poems Paperback - 2003

by Brian Bartlett


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Since the late 1980s, Bartlett has become one of Canada's leading poets, and the time is ripe for volume of his best work. For Wanting the Day: Selected Poems, he has chosen the most dramatic poems from six earlier volumes. From the beginning of his career, Brian Bartlett's poetry has been refined and sensual, far-reaching and grounded.

In this new collection, Bartlett's vision is distilled, and new combinations throw the insights of three decades into high relief. With a passion for the physical rooted in the spiritual, his poems combine seemingly discordant ideas and facts with emotion in a minimum of narrative space. Whether writing about a jazz drummer or a foot-doctor, a run-down hotel or an Adirondack mountain, his gift for language and insight brings into the reader's consciousness visions never before seen, thoughts and feelings never before recognized.

Favourites in the collection include "Cousin Gifts," a small-scale, large-spirited Christmas poem; the sequence "Underwater Carpentry," winner of a Malahat Review Long Poem prize; and "Foot-doctor for the Homeless," winner of the Petra Kenney Award competition. Wanting the Day has been published simultaneously in the UK by Peterloo Poets Society.

From the rear cover

Brian Bartlett's poetry fuses ideas, events, and emotions with subterranean dreams, compressing them until they turn to diamond. His passion for the physical is rooted in the spiritual, which in turn strengthens the grip of his poems on the natural world. Whether he is writing about a jazz drummer or a foot doctor, a vireo or a seal, a rundown hotel or an Adirondack mountain, humour and music enliven his lines.

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  • Title Wanting the Day: Selected Poems
  • Author Brian Bartlett
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Goose Lane Editions, Fredericton, New Brunswick
  • Date 2003-09
  • ISBN 9780864923578 / 0864923570
  • Weight 0.36 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.46 x 5.54 x 0.34 in (21.49 x 14.07 x 0.86 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003501058
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

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Citations

  • Quill & Quire, 10/01/2003, Page 39
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