Driving home: poems new and selected - Softcover

Waddington, Miriam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195402006 ISBN 13: 9780195402001

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1972

Synopsis

The Canadian poet Miriam Waddington has already been introduced to English readers with the publication of `Dream Telescope' (1972), and her poems have appeared in several English magazines. `Driving Home' brings together for the first time her work of thirty years - poems selected from her six previously published books as well as a group of new poems. Using prairie geography, Jewish folklore, and Canadian history, as well as her experience as a social worker and teacher, she seeks to explore the inner sources of many kinds of love - love of country, love between men and women, parents and children, people and landscape. She has consistently searched for, and struggled towards, the discovery of her essential identity as an artist, a woman, and a Canadian in a changing world. Through her rootlessness she identifies many roots, and through her lyrical images of Biblical legends, pagan fairy tales, and local landscapes, she bridges the inner world of the psyche and the outer world of reality. Within the boundaries of her created world she reveals the possibility of love, survival and the new.

Her previous poetry collections are `Green World' (1945), `The Second Silence' (1955), `The Season's Lovers' (1958), `The Glass Trumpet' (1966), `Call Them Canadians' (1968), `Say Yes' (1969), and `Dream Telescope' (1972). She is also the author of a study of the Montreal poet A.M. Klein (1970).

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0195402006
• ISBN 13: 9780195402001
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176