The Fifth Window

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By (author): Russell Thornton

Distinguished by its lyricism, depth of emotion, its metaphysical bent and the colour and wide range of reference in its imagery, The Fifth Window, opens up new vistas of language and experience. The landscape and climate of Vancouver and the BC coast imbue this collection with a spiritual and physical immediacy and energy. The area’s trees, mountains, rivers, creeks and rain inform an ecstatic vision in which the psyche and natural world meet and become one.

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Russell Thornton

Russell Thornton’s previous books are The Fifth Window, A Tunisian Notebook, House Built of Rain (shortlisted for the BC Book Prize and the ReLit Award), The Human Shore, and Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain (shortlisted for the 2013 Governor General’s Award for poetry). Thornton won the League of Canadian Poets National Contest in 2000 and The Fiddlehead magazine’s Ralph Gustafson Prize in 2009. He lives in North Vancouver, B.C.

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Dimensions:

80 Pages
8.50in * 5.55in * .33in
120.00gr

Published:

January 22, 2007

Publisher:

Thistledown Press

ISBN:

9781894345095

Book Subjects:

POETRY / Canadian

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Language:

eng

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