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Wheatley, Patience

Softcover

ISBN 10: 086492089X ISBN 13: 9780864920898

Publisher: Goose Lane Editions, 1989

Synopsis

Wheatley reflects on her experience with the Canadian Women's Army Corps — exploring her own coming-of-age and offering an historical testament to the Canadian women who joined the Corps in World War II. Rich with sentiment, Wheatley's poems are never sentimental, but enlivened by honesty and wit.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

In this her second book of poems, Patience Wheatley reflects upon her experience with the Canadian Women's Army Corps -- exploring her own coming-of-age and offering an historical testament to to the Canadian women who joined the Corps in World War II. The discipline of army drill "recalling crunching patterns / made by our feet on parade ground gravel / to sharp words of command" becomes in memory a time "when once we did it together and perfectly" -- an image of fulfillment both spiritual and sexual.

A young girl's romanticism is later transformed, after marriage and children, to the "blessed revelation" that "love is / the predicate." Rich with sentiment, Wheatley's poems are never sentimental, but enlivened by honesty and wit.

About the Author:

Patience Wheatley was born in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, England, and came to Canada at the age of fifteen. Her first two collections of poetry were published by Goose Lane Editions.

About this edition

• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 086492089X
• ISBN 13: 9780864920898
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 75