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Tar swan : poems
- Title
- Tar swan : poems / David Martin.
- Author
- Martin, David
- Publication
- Edmonton, AB : NeWest Press, [2018]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 18-2392 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 89 pages : portrait; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Tar Swan is a multi-voiced reckoning that surveys the mythos of the Alberta oil sands with an approach that is both lyrical and experimental. The poems feature four voices: an oil sands developer (in public and in private), his plant mechanic, an archeologist excavating the remains of the operation years later, and a mythical swan. David Martin's debut collection is comprised of expansive and richly written poems, built on a lore-laden language, which explore the human and environmental cost of drawing too much from the land. As the three humans come into contact with the otherworldly swan, the voices bubble and churn together, and what is distilled is the human psychological breakdown paralleling the violence done to the earth."--
- Series Statement
- Crow said
- Uniform Title
- Poems. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Poems.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-2392
- ISBN
- 9781988732183
- 1988732182
- OCLC
- 1030283260
- Author
- Martin, David, author.
- Title
- Tar swan : poems / David Martin.
- Publisher
- Edmonton, AB : NeWest Press, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Crow said
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-2392