Fielder's Choice - Softcover

Partridge, Elise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550651706 ISBN 13: 9781550651706

Publisher: Véhicule Press, 2002

Synopsis

Filled with rich evocations of childhood, travel, and landscape, Fielder’s Choice delivers fresh and striking elegiac poems that grapple with their subjects vigorously, unpredictably, and without sentimentality. Partridge’s poetry combines a gifted ear for the vernacular and exuberant verbal skills with an exceptional—and often emotionally powerful—lyric intelligence.

About this title

About the Author:

Elise Partridge’s prize-winning poems have appeared in Poetry magazine, Books in Canada, The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, Canadian Literature, Slate, The New Republic, Boulevard, and Poetry Ireland Review. In 1987 she won a “Special Commendation” in the Arvon International Poetry Contest, judged by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes. She is an editor and tutor in Vancouver.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

Everglades

Nothing fled when we walked up to it,
nor did we flinch,
even at the hobnailed gators sunning two-inch fangs,
a licorice-whip snake slipping over our shoes.
The normally secretive clapper-rail
appeared under our boardwalk
glancing this way and that,
casual as a moviegoer hunting for a seat.
Tropical, temperate, each constituency spoke—
the sunburned-looking gumbo-limbo trees
nodded side by side with sedate, northern pines.
Even the darkness gave its blessing
for the moonflower to open under its aegis.
A bird swaying on a pole of sedge
sang two notes that might have been "Name me."

About this edition

• Publisher: Véhicule Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1550651706
• ISBN 13: 9781550651706
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96