This Brighter Prison: A Book of Journeys - Softcover

Connelly, Karen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0919626637 ISBN 13: 9780919626638

Publisher: Brick Books, 1993

Synopsis

In her first book of poetry since The Small Words in My Body, which won the Pat Lowther Prize for 1990, Karen Connelly writes, in the tradition of the writer-adventurer, of vivid encounters and reflections abroad and at home, continuing her pursuit of "living knowledge of the world." These poems enact journeys of the body and heart with candour and sensuous grace, catching the very texture of human experience in the lithe, muscular lines which have a cat-like metaphorical reach.

About this title

About the Author:

Karen Connelly, a native of Calgary, has lived in Thailand, Spain, France and Greece. Her travels are an integral part of her writing. Touch the Dragon, a travel book deriving from her experience in Thailand, won the 1993 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.

Review:

."..I found Connelly's tendency to pump up the volume quite refreshing... enough boldness and passion to stir the sensualist in any reader."--Barbara Carey, Books in Canada

"The experience of life that runs in and beneath these poems is unusual for a woman of twenty-three... This is a writer to savor, and to watch."--Patricia Morely, Canadian Book Review Annual

"Perhaps what is so appealing about Connelly's poems is that they present so clearly the impression of a haunted person, moving warily between the perceptions of the moment and the memories of the past... poems that appeal to all of the faculties."--Robert Attridge, NeWest Review

" ... I found Connelly's tendency to pump up the volume quite refreshing ... enough boldness and passion to stir the sensualist in any reader."--Barbara Carey, Books in Canada

"The experience of life that runs in and beneath these poems is unusual for a woman of twenty-three... This is a writer to savor, and to watch."--Patricia Morely, Canadian Book Review Annual

"Perhaps what is so appealing about Connelly's poems is that they present so clearly the impression of a haunted person, moving warily between the perceptions of the moment and the memories of the past ... poems that appeal to all of the faculties."--Robert Attridge, NeWest Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Brick Books
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0919626637
• ISBN 13: 9780919626638
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112