Franklin's Passage by David Solway
Poems inspired by the fate of Franklin's search for the North-West Passage-
Kingdom of the Clock
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Side Effects May Include Strangers
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Some Dance
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The Winter Count
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Orchid Heart Elegies
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Unfinishing
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Unbecoming
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Unbound
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Vlarf
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watching for life
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Rushes from the River Disappointment
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Knots
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Chess Pieces
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Earth Words
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Dust Blown Side of the Journey
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A Different Wolf
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Hurt Thyself
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The Unlit Path Behind the House
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A Lovely Gutting
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Wet Apples, White Blood
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The Afterlife of Trees
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Empties
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Rush of Wingspan
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Dreamcraft
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All the God-sized Fruit
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The Asparagus Feast
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Before We Had Words
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But for Now
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Ganymede's Dog
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Outside, Inside
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The Ishtar Gate
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Giving My Body to Science
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The Silver Palace Restaurant
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Palilalia
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At Beckett’s Grave
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Metromorphoses
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White Lily
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SCAR/CITY
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Take the Compass
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Water Quality
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Without Beginning or End
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twofold
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Whiny Baby
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Rags of Night in Our Mouths
"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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| SKU | Unavailable |
| 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. |
| Note | Unavailable |