The Address Book: Poems ** SIGNED **/A Throw of Particles ** SIGNED **

Steven Heighton/ Jones, D. G.

ISBN 10: 088784698X / ISBN 13: 9780887846984

Published by House of Anansi Press/ General Publishing, Toronto, 2004

About this Item

An offering of two books of poetry dedicated to the same person. 1 ) The Address Book: number line 08 07 06 05 04 1 2 3 4 5, book divisions - Address Book 14 poems, Gravesongs 9 poems, Ultrasound 14 poems, Fifteen Approximations 15 poems, 79 pp. plus: Notes, Acknowledgements. Book has very, very slight shelf wear. 2 ) A Throw of Particles: (of Spectrum Poetry Series), ISBN 0773611290, stated 1st Printing, Fine+, 1983, Preface by E.D. Blodgett, 1983, 75 poems, 112 pp. Both books are SIGNED dedication/association copies to Kim Ondaatje, artist and film maker. Bookseller's Inventory # 242000.

Seller Inventory # 002000

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Address Book: Poems ** SIGNED **/A Throw of Particles ** SIGNED **
• Publisher: House of Anansi Press/ General Publishing, Toronto
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 088784698X
• ISBN 13: 9780887846984
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Nancy Friedland (cover photo/ Brian Henderson (cover)
• Edition: True 1st Cdn. Edition, 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: By Co Authors
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed
  • Poetry
  • Canadiana

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Synopsis

The Address Book is a collection of beautifully crafted poems of love and loss. They are united by bitter complaint and grief, feelings that are only fought off by music and intelligence. Elegiac, angry, tender, and brazenly heart-felt, the poems achieve their effect through total immersion in the rich palette of human emotions, and a willingness to tap into "This whim / against what drifts to dark." The book's second half includes Heighton's versions of Western poetry's sustaining giants, including Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Sappho, Catullus, Homer, and Rilke.

About the Author

STEVEN HEIGHTON (1961-2022)'s most recent books were the novel The Nightingale Won't Let You Sleep (Hamish Hamilton, 2017), the Governor General's Literary Award-winning poetry collection The Waking Comes Late (House of Anansi Press, 2016), and the memoir Reaching Mithymna (Biblioasis, 2020), which was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. He was also the author of the novel Afterlands, which was published in six countries, was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, and was a "best of year" selection from ten publications in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. The novel was optioned for film by Pall Grimsson. His other poetry collections include The Ecstasy of Skeptics and The Address Book. His fiction and poetry have been translated into ten languages, have appeared in the London Review of Books, Tin House, Poetry, Brick, the Independent, the Literary Review, and The Walrus Magazine, among others; have been internationally anthologized in Best English Stories, Best American Poetry, The Minerva Book of Stories, and Best American Mystery Stories; and have won the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry, the Gerald Lampert Award, the K. M. Hunter Award, the P. K. Page Founders' Award, the Petra Kenney Prize, the Air Canada Award, and four gold National Magazine Awards. In addition, Heighton was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award, the Trillium Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Journey Prize, the Moth Prize, and Britain's W. H. Smith Award. Heighton was also a fiction reviewer for the New York Times Book Review. He lived in Kingston, Ontario. In 2021, Wolfe Island Records released an album of his songs, The Devil's Share. To listen, visit www.wolfeislandrecords.com/stevenheighton.