Research Catalog

Title

The broken face : poems / Russell Thornton.

Author

Thornton, Russell

Publication

• Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Description

95 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"The poems in The Broken Face explore a sacramental, imaginative vision within contexts of crime, perception, memory and love. In this collection, Russell Thornton returns to the vital themes of intimacy and family, loss, fear and hope, bringing to each poem the essential quality of a myth or incantation. Reverent and revealing, within those familiar relationships he ushers in a connection with something transcendent: "A man has come floundering late in the night / to stand alone at the shore of a sleeping infant's face." The poems capture life at the periphery, whether describing homelessness or incarceration, or even the universal experiences of aging and mortality, love and fear of love, all of which bring the speaker into a detached yet energized state of watching and waiting: "the door that was my grandfather into our passing lives / will arrive at a house where each of us is his own door / that opens on our first selves, fundamental together." With intense lyricism, Thornton displays a mastery of craft so complete as to be nearly invisible. While stunningly beautiful, his imagery is also in such complete service to the deeper emotional resonance of each poem that it feels inevitable, and contributes to making the collection deeply moving."--

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• Canadian poetry > 21st century
• Canadian poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Contents

Scales -- Screaming -- A man on death row -- Open -- Driving -- Jail -- Week-old son -- Cell -- Gunman -- A drop of blood -- The chance -- Water makes its way -- Soccer ball -- Teeth -- Tying shoes -- Question -- My four-year-old son and a bicycle pump -- Copper door -- Dandelions -- Picking blackberries with my daughter -- Xmastime dancing -- Woolly snow -- The shore -- Bubble -- Tiny crabs -- North Vancouver -- When the rain comes -- Cart riders -- Sirens -- Aftermath -- At Safeway -- Stopping the waves -- Wildfire : photos -- Stroller -- The water and the stone trap -- Birthmark -- Two houses -- A dove -- O God, beast, mystery, come! -- The broken face -- Summer vineyard, Naramata -- The finch, questions and answers -- A photograph -- Girl on a tire swing -- The wound -- Creating a timeline -- Change.

Call Number

JFE 19-6206

ISBN

• 9781550178449
• 155017844X

OCLC

1055269449

Author

Thornton, Russell, author.

Title

The broken face : poems / Russell Thornton.

Publisher

Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Additional Formats

Issued also in electronic format.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Other Form:

Thornton, Russell, author. Broken face. Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing, 2018. (CaOONL)20189035749

Research Call Number

JFE 19-6206