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Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems
In compact, conversational poems that build into a narrative long poem, Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems follows the tragic trajectory of the life and work of Terry Sawchuk, dark driven genius of a goalie who survived twenty tough seasons in an era of inadequate upper-body equipment and no player representation. But no summary touches the searching intensity of Maggs’s poems. They range from meditations on ancient/modern heroism to dramatic capsules of actual games, in which the mystery of character meets the mystery of transcendent physical performance. Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems is illustrated with photographs mirroring the text, depicting key moments in the career of Terry Sawchuk, his exploits and his agony. – See more at: http://www.brickbooks.ca/?page_id=3&bookid=170#sthash.FDW2nYPo.dpuf
An exquisite biographical novel in the tradition of Michael Ondaatjes The Collected Works of Billy the Kid clearly Maggs has his own deep knowledge of what he calls an ancient game with ancient rules Night Work takes us into the darker more complex psyche of a colder nationJohn Degen The Globe and Mail
Sawchuck could be the poster boy for that golden age of hockey also the face of the games darker side Night Works a historical epic complete with tragically flawed characters high drama gladiatorial combat and occasional comic reliefBarbara Carey The Toronto Star
Each of the dozens of short poems is a revelation a wonderful celebration of maskless thinly padded goalies who wore barefaced grimaces of pain even fear with their bruises that lasted deep into the summerDave Stubbs Montreal Gazette
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224 Pages
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January 01, 2008
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9781894078627
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