Yellow Crane by Susan Gillis

Yellow Crane by Susan Gillis

JURY SELECTION FOR LE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE DE MONTREAL 2019

Inviting, human, capacious poems that grapple with ideas while also lightly grieving our capacity for ruin.

Yellow Crane, Susan Gillis's fourth collection of poetry, is a book of many views, many voices. A long look at the changing landscape of a Montreal neighbourhood becomes at once a lament and a love poem. A sequence of poems inspired by Japanese tanka take on the cultural weather, core-drilling into the contradictions and uncertainties of the everyday. Writers, artists, thinkers, cooks, and others congregate in a hammock on the edge of a hayfield to compare notes on what we value. A bear turns up on a path near a quarry.

The poems of Yellow Crane study, with a lover's tender yet critical eye, the world we occupy and the way we occupy it: art, industry, environments both built and natural; the simultaneous flux and agelessness of our daily habits; the long human story of appropriation of wilderness; the fragility, resilience, and questionable worth of what we make, especially under political, economic, and social pressures; concern about our changing times; grief over what we leave behind.

This is a book that argues with itself, then rests. At once precise and loose, wise and nimble, it will make you both feel and think -- and care about the world along with it.

"We know the tree stands for promise
and for the desire, which comes much later, for atonement.
We stand at the west-facing window
and let the buildings opposite turn gold, then back to brick."
(from "Morning Light")

Gillis, Susan: - Drawing upon images from the Historical Society of Palm Beach County, Boca Raton Historical Society and Museum, and other public and private collections, the authors tell the compelling story of Palm Beach County's vital service during World War II. Susan Gillis has served as curator at the Boca Raton Historical Society and Museum since 2002. Education curator Richard A. Marconi and chief curator Debi Murray have served the Historical Society of Palm Beach County since 2001 and 1999, respectively. All three have written several books on local history and have created exhibits about the county at war.

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ISBN 13	9781771314916
ISBN 10	1771314915
Title	Yellow Crane
Author	Susan Gillis
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Brick Books
Year published	2018-12-13
Number of pages	88
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.