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Published by Porcupine's Quill, 2005
ISBN 10: 0889842736ISBN 13: 9780889842731
Seller: Earthlight Books, Walla Walla, WA, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good, clean text, trade paperback binding, light wear to corners and edges, satisfaction guaranteed. Earthlight Books is a family owned and operated, independent bookstore serving Walla Walla, Washington since 1973.
Published by Porcupine's Quill, 2005
ISBN 10: 0889842736ISBN 13: 9780889842731
Seller: Cottage Street Books, Greenwich, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 2005. The Porcupine's Quill. 8vo. Softcover. First edition. Fine.
Published by Porcupine's Quill, 2005
ISBN 10: 0889842736ISBN 13: 9780889842731
Seller: Prompt Shipping/ Quality Books, Bay, AR, U.S.A.
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Condition: New. In John Updike's Room: New and Selected Poems-POETRY.
Published by Erin, Ontario, Canada: Porcupines Quill, 2005
ISBN 10: 0889842736ISBN 13: 9780889842731
Seller: The Porcupine's Quill, Erin, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Original printed wraps. 224 pp. Octavo. In In John Updike's Room, one of Canada's major poets has gathered the best from his first eight books, and added a generous and richly varied selection of new and previously unpublished work. Christopher Wiseman demonstrates here, with great authority, a strong and impressive humanity, deep feeling, a total command of both free and formal verse, an ability to celebrate the seemingly ordinary and turn it into something unforgettable, even luminous, and a startlingly wide range of subject, tone and approach. The poems collected here from some forty years of writing move around Europe, Britain, Canada and the United States, and range from the comic to the satirical to the reflective to the elegiac, but never lose what the Pulitzer prize-winning poet Donald Justice has called Wiseman's `strong, clear, truth-telling voice'. Don Coles admires the poems for being `subtle and tender', and throughout these warm, human and accessible works, the over-riding quality is one of honest, recognizable, but distinctive emotion, as the poems, brilliantly crafted and shaped, delight and deepen our sense of personal possibility, of the joy, laughter, sorrow and grief which will send the reader back over and over again to its warm and wise pages. Printed offset by Tim Inkster on the Heidelberg KORD at the printing office of the Porcupine's Quill in the Village of Erin, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. Smyth sewn into 16-page signatures, with hand-tipped endleaves front and back.