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by: P. K. Page
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780889842526
ISBN: 0889842523
Label: Porcupine's Quill
Manufacturer: Porcupine's Quill
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: August 30, 2002
Publisher: Porcupine's Quill
Release Date: August 15, 2002
Sales Rank: 613641
Studio: Porcupine's Quill
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Product Description:
The title of this book is taken from Page's poem, `Planet Earth', which was chosen by the United Nations in 2000 for their celebratory program Year of Dialogue among Civilizations. Now poet and essayist Eric Ormsby, with Page's input, has selected the best of Page's poems originally collected in the two volumes of The Hidden Room (Porcupine's Quill, 1997). Page has also contributed to Planet Earth a small number of very recent poems. Ormsby has written a wonderful introduction to this new selection; he hastens to point out that deciding what to include was a most difficult process because there was so much to choose from. He goes on to say:
`It has become customary in Canada to describe P. K. Page as ``distinguished'', but that epithet betrays her. P. K. Page is simply too vivacious, too cunning, too elusive, to be monumentalized. She is in fact the supreme escape artist of our literature. Try to confine her in a villanelle and she scampers off into free verse. Peg her as a prose poet and she springs forth with a glosa. Categorize her as a poet who writes fiction but then note that you find very little ``poet's prose'' in her stories. Her characters are often incised with acid and a cruelly keen burin. She is the shrewdest of observers but at the same time she celebrates life, low and high, in all its manifestations. One of the finest and most distinctive Canadian poets, P. K. Page is no provincial. She is a citizen not merely of the world, but of the earth.'
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Rating: - Cherishing Planet Earth
If you are familiar with P.K. Page's poetry, you will cherish this collection. If you don't yet know her work, this is the place to start. Planet Earth, Eric Ormsby's selection of Page's poems written over five decades, presents Page's work in an arrangement that is as elegant and esoteric as the poet herself.
Ormsby must have found it a challenge to have to choose from Page's considerable body of work. In his introduction he acknowledges that the choice was hard, and says that he ... Read More
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