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The broken face : poems

Title
The broken face : poems / Russell Thornton.
Author
Thornton, Russell
Publication
  • Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing, [2018]
  • ©2018

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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.
Subjects
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
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