Singer, An Elegy
- Publisher
- Anvil Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2004
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781895636611
- Publish Date
- Sep 2004
- List Price
- $10
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Description
Singer, An Elegy is a long poem memorializing the author's father and, equally, the now-obsolete industrial culture that shaped him. Singer, An Elegy has rhetorical lightning flashes but aspires to much greater straightforwardness than Fetherling's previous poetry.
Praise for Singer, An Elegy:
"Singer is a brilliant poem. Fetherling takes John Thompson's ghazal form, mixes in the cadences of Dennis Lee and William Carlos Williams and emerges with a masterpiece. It recovers the elegy for the 21st century." (George Elliott Clarke, Canada's seventh Poet Laureate)
About the author
A.F. Moritz has published more than twenty collections of poetry as well as important works of literary history and numerous translations of Latin American verse. A leading figure in the literary life of Canada, he has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a major award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Two of his most recent works have reaffirmed his reputation: Night Street Repairs (2004) received the ReLit Award and The Sentinel (2008) won both the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry magazine and the Griffin Poetry Prize. He teaches at the University of Toronto.
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