Red Obsidian : New and Selected Poems

Stephan Torre

ISBN 10: 0889777756 / ISBN 13: 9780889777750

Published by University Of Regina Press Mär 2021, 2021

About this Item

Neuware - 'A visceral new collection from esteemed poet Stephen Torre, grappling with the demands and complexities of life in the northwest wild lands. Drawing from a life lived well, amidst hard work and time for reflection in the northwest wild lands of the Canadian and American Wests, Stephen Torre returns to the literary world with his usual descriptive and lyric intensity. Comprised of new and selected poems, Red Obsidian explores the necessary tensions that arise between genders and the pain and grief of environmental loss.'.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Red Obsidian : New and Selected Poems
• Publisher: University Of Regina Press Mär 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0889777756
• ISBN 13: 9780889777750
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 140H x 9D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 140 millimeters height by 9 millimeters depth
• Weight: 204 grams

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Synopsis

<p><b>A visceral new collection from esteemed poet Stephen Torre, grappling with the strength and complexities of life in the northwest wild lands</b><br><br> Drawing from a life lived well, amidst hard work and time for reflection in the northwest wild lands of the Canadian and American Wests, Stephen Torre returns to the literary world with his usual descriptive and lyric intensity. Comprised of new and selected poems, <i>Red Obsidian </i>explores the necessary tensions that arise between genders and the pain and grief of environmental loss. <br><br> Inspired and influenced by a diverse array of literary influences—Indigenous oral poets and English pastoral poets, T’ang Dynasty Chinese poets and Latin American poets, American Imagists and poets Theodore Roethke, James Wright, and W.S. Merwin—Torre’s book is a poetic journal of a man passionately engaged at once with the marvel of wilderness and the rural labors of family homesteading, construction, and the logging of that wilderness.<br><br> “When there’s more joy or grief or hunger for knowing than I could express or explore elsewhere, I’m afflicted with the need to squeeze language from my fists. One can only hold so much inside,” admits Torre. Readers will feel the torque, squeeze, and pull in these poems.</p>

About the Author

Stephan Torre is the author of two previous collections, Man Living on a Side Creek (NYU Press, 1994) and Iron Fever (Lost Horse Press, 2003). He lives in British Columbia.