Red Haws to Light the Field

Deahl, James

ISBN 10: 1771831987 / ISBN 13: 9781771831987

Published by Guernica Editions, Incorporated, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Red Haws to Light the Field
• Publisher: Guernica Editions, Incorporated
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1771831987
• ISBN 13: 9781771831987
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 0.397 pounds

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Synopsis

Red Haws To Light The Field is wide-ranging in subject matter: love, eroticism, war, death, and the nature of poetic endeavour. Red Haws also contains poems inspired by or dedicated to the great masters and fellow poets: Li Po, Tu Fu, Federico García Lorca, Czeslaw Milosz, Raymond Souster, Pablo Neruda, Robert Bly, James Wright, Kenneth Rexroth, Jack Gilbert, Jean Joubert, Gerald Stern, Emily Dickinson, and Katherine L. Gordon.

About the Author

James Deahl was born in Pittsburgh in 1945, and grew up in that city as well as in and around the Laurel Highlands of the Appalachian Mountains. He moved to Canada in 1970 and holds Canadian citizenship. He is the author or editor of forty literary titles, recently his two prior collections from Guernica, Rooms the Wind Makes and Red Haws to Light the Field, as well as Tamaracks: Canadian poetry for the 21st century, the first major anthology of Canadian poetry published in the U.S. in three decades. He is the father of Sarah, Simone, and Shona, with whom he is translating the poetry of the Québécois poet Émile Nelligan. Deahl lives in Sarnia with companion Norma West Linder.