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Poems from Trainer’s three previously published collections are gathered with recent poems in a single volume representing her work over the past decade. She makes the lives of obscure people shine forth with simple eloquence and is particularly skilled at capturing the attentive mind of a child confronting adult ambiguities.
Ever since the CBC Anthology programme featured Yvonne Trainer’s “Manyberries” poems while she was still an undergraduate, her work has attracted readers and listeners to a new and distinctive voice. The interests of these poems are intensely human: the observations acute; the language deceptively simple, forged from common speech. Trainer is close to her audience — a wonderful performer of her work — and makes memorable the drama of everyday events, a poetry of confirmation, of shared surprise and wonder. Drawing from her roots in Alberta prairie life, she is also a directly autobiographical poet, capable of rendering places and people with special attention, often from the wise perspective of a child.
In Landscape Turned Sideways poems from Trainer’s three previously published collections are brought together with recent work, offering readers a representative volume of her first decade as a published poet.
102 Pages
8.75in * 5.5in * 0.52in
340gr
January 01, 1988
9780864920874
eng
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