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Title: The Proving Grounds
Publisher: Signal, Montreal
Publication Date: 1991
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1550650181
ISBN 13: 9781550650181
Binding: Softcover
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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This is poetry informed by an engaging and lively sense of astonishment of all things--both the commonplace and familial, and the curious and remarkable. Tregebov's work ranges from a heart-wrenching series of poems about a life-threatening ailment contracted by her only child, to travel sketches, polemical political pieces, and lyrically-tender love poems.

About the Author

Rhea Tregebovis the author of six acclaimed books of poetry and the historical novel The Knife Sharpener's Bell [2009]. She has written children's picture books and edited numerous anthologies. Her work has received the J.I. Segal Award, and the Pat Lowther Award, Prairie Schooner Readers' Choice Award, and the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize. She is an Associate Professor in the Creative Writing department at the University of British Columbia.

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