The Island by Michael White
While he was Poet Laureate of the United States (1990-91), Mark Strand selected this book for publication with special funds administered by the National Endowment for the Arts, saying, No first book in recent memory has so much wisdom, so much lyric conviction as Michael White's The Island. I find his poems astonishingly mature, profound, evocative. White's poems rise from the dark interstices of memory and imagination, his brief love poems of uncannily bright phrasing providing counterpoint to his mastery of elegiac meditation. He knows the water-world of rivers and bays and boats so intuitively that his rhythms of language and image often convey a parallel sense of time and motion, his eye for luminous detail elevating an already impressive gift for narrative. White's imaginative world is like no other in contemporary poetry. He evokes Emersonian themes as comfortably as he explores a range of verse forms, his landscapes gravitating toward an art of fleeting illusory grace.Michael White (1948-2008), a co-director of the Dulwich Centre, an institute for narrative practice and community work in Adelaide, Australia, and one of the creators of narrative therapy, made significant contributions to psychotherapy and family therapy. He is the co-author of Narrative Ways to Therapeutic Ends and the author of Maps of Narrative Practice.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781556590504 |
| ISBN 10 | 1556590504 |
| Title | The Island |
| Author | Michael White |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Copper Canyon Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 1992-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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