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Dear Hermes...
Michelle Smith
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Description for Dear Hermes...
Paperback. This Canadian Prairie poet's debut collection is framed by imaginative travelogues addressed to Greek gods. Series: Robert Kroetsch Series. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 132 x 6. Weight in Grams: 136.
By turns joyous and adventurous, melancholy and nostalgic, Michelle Smith's debut collection of poems showcases a wide-ranging fascination with places, people, and story. Smith's limpid and humane handling of an array of themes, emotions, and styles-her Norwegian ancestry, her Canadian Prairie heritage, the significance of family, the fragility of memory, world travel, ekphrasis, myth, and more-exemplifies the lyric self on a poetic grand tour, or pilgrimage, to meet the world. Framed by imaginative travelogues addressed to Greek gods, dear Hermes... offers readers an escape and an entrance-out of time and into the poet's luminous experience. Readers who appreciate clear lyric ... Read more
By turns joyous and adventurous, melancholy and nostalgic, Michelle Smith's debut collection of poems showcases a wide-ranging fascination with places, people, and story. Smith's limpid and humane handling of an array of themes, emotions, and styles-her Norwegian ancestry, her Canadian Prairie heritage, the significance of family, the fragility of memory, world travel, ekphrasis, myth, and more-exemplifies the lyric self on a poetic grand tour, or pilgrimage, to meet the world. Framed by imaginative travelogues addressed to Greek gods, dear Hermes... offers readers an escape and an entrance-out of time and into the poet's luminous experience. Readers who appreciate clear lyric ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
Series
Robert Kroetsch Series
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
, Canada
ISBN
9780888645975
SKU
V9780888645975
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About Michelle Smith
Michelle Smith is a poet and Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.
Reviews for Dear Hermes...
"I enjoyed this collection and its combination of classicism, nature imagery and response to myth and to art. I also really liked the choice of form.... This was a collection in which I found poems to soothe my need for imagery and for twists of the language. I was interested in the stories it told and the echoes set going ... Read more