Allowing the Light (Newfoundland Poetry Series) - Softcover

Dalton, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550810731 ISBN 13: 9781550810738

Publisher: Breakwater Books Ltd., 1994

Synopsis

The word allow has roots in the Latin verb laudare, to praise. These poems seek to allow the music of that which is muted in a world of bellowing. In Section I light plays on the veined ways of vegetation, of poetry, of eros. Section II illuminates states of alienation and longing. The fierce light of Swift bu s in Section IV; these poems lament Newfoundland's losses and celebrate its landscape, language, and culture.

About this title

About the Author:

Mary Dalton was born in Lake View, in the parish of Harbour Main, in Conception Bay. She has studied at the University of Toronto, Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Liverpool. She now lives in St. John's and teaches in the Department of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She was editor and co-publisher of the Newfoundland literary Magazine TickleAce from 1980-1986. Her first volume of poems, The Time of Icicles was published by Breakwater in 1989.

About this edition

• Publisher: Breakwater Books Ltd.
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1550810731
• ISBN 13: 9781550810738
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64