Franklin's Passage by David Solway

Franklin's Passage by David Solway

Poems inspired by the fate of Franklin's search for the North-West Passage

"These poems play games with the world, or they appear toPerhaps the world is playing its own kind of joke on us through the genial agency of David Solway's Chess Pieces. One might mistake this enterprise for a manual for poetical grand masters - did these poems not so precisely mimic the games our lives play, and so tearfully evoke the dreadful stakes we play for. They are true poems, and their play releases powerful forces." Peter Davison, poetry editor for The Atlantic Monthly "I have enjoyed David Solway's poems for decades, and am glad to see a new collection; glad, too, to find that these Chess Pieces are wholly accessible to one whose grasp of the game is primitive. Here, as always, Solway writes with a Gravesian dash and brio, taking (and giving) pleasure in a fine vocabulary, a gift for surprising figures, and a striking breadth of reference." Richard Wilbur "I've long wanted to learn just enough chess to call myself, accurately, a patzer. Now I have another reason: in order to appreciate more fully David Solway's grand-masterful poems. For the nonce, I'm content to admire Chess Pieces simply for its art, which is (to steal one of Solway's lapidary lines) "towering, valorous, cardinal, majestic." Ben Downing, Managing Editor of Parnassus

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ISBN 13	9780773526839
ISBN 10	0773526838
Title	Franklin's Passage
Author	David Solway
Series	Hugh Maclennan Poetry Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	McGill-Queen's University Press
Year published	2003-11-03
Number of pages	96
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.