Along A Snake Fence Riding - Softcover

New, W.H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889822360 ISBN 13: 9780889822368

Publisher: Oolichan Books, 2007

Synopsis

Along a Snake Fence Riding is a long poem for eight voices, a meditation on time and memory, and on the science of time and memory: rich in allusion and eloquent in imagery, wide-ranging and yet remarkable in its close attention to detail. The poem invites readers not just to follow the life that is imagined on these pages but to venture into their own lives, discover the joy and the pain of living in connection - in connection with other people, with love and loss, and with the environment we sometimes ignore and yet always call home.
The poem calls the reader to follow the fence line wherever it wanders, to immerse in the river it follows, to engage with the music of the language and discover, too, the possibility of celebration.

About this title

About the Author:

William New is one of Canada's outstanding men of letters. He is University Killam Professor in English Literature at the University of British Columbia and is the author and editor of over thirty volumes in the field of Canadian and postcolonial literature. For many years he was editor of the journal Canadian Literature. He is on the editorial board of the New Canadian Library and the editor of the monumental "Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada" (U of Toronto Press). He is also a poet and a writer of children's books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oolichan Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0889822360
• ISBN 13: 9780889822368
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96