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Pretty Sight
David O'meara
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Description for Pretty Sight
Paperback. David O'Meara finds defiance amid decay and oblivion, with guest appearances from Sid Vicious, Socrates, and Sophie Scholl. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 9. Weight in Grams: 157.
Finalist for the 2014 Archibald Lampman Award for Outstanding Book of Poetry! Like the rhapsodists, the storytellers of ancient Greece, A Pretty Sight shapes voices into a stitched song propelled toward the next century. Haunted by "time's frame / that dark shape near the edge of the canvas," David O'Meara sifts culture, art, war, rebellion, and technology, offering defiance amid decay, while singing with the conflicting impulses of reflection and dissent. David O'Meara has authored three poetry collections and a play. He's been shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award, the ReLit Prize, the Trillium Book Award, a National Magazine ... Read more
Finalist for the 2014 Archibald Lampman Award for Outstanding Book of Poetry! Like the rhapsodists, the storytellers of ancient Greece, A Pretty Sight shapes voices into a stitched song propelled toward the next century. Haunted by "time's frame / that dark shape near the edge of the canvas," David O'Meara sifts culture, art, war, rebellion, and technology, offering defiance amid decay, while singing with the conflicting impulses of reflection and dissent. David O'Meara has authored three poetry collections and a play. He's been shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award, the ReLit Prize, the Trillium Book Award, a National Magazine ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781552452813
SKU
V9781552452813
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About David O'meara
David O'Meara: David O'Meara lives in Ottawa, Ontario. He is the author of three collections of poetry, and a play, Disaster. His most recent book is Noble Gas, Penny Black (Brick Books, 2008). He is director of the renowned Plan 99 Reading Series and was the Canadian judge for the 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Reviews for Pretty Sight
"O'Meara is a poet of the personal. Of the person. In and amongst the social documentary and human observation at which he excels, here is a writer prepared to put feelings on the line and to argue his case with the reader. This is proud, felt, and affecting work
I can't think of many other poets so prepared to ... Read more
I can't think of many other poets so prepared to ... Read more