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list price: $10
edition:Paperback
category: Poetry
published: Sep 2004
ISBN:9781895636611
publisher:
Anvil Press
Description
Singer, An Elegy is a long poem memorializing the author's father and, equally, the now-obsolete industrial culture that shaped him. Singer, An Elegy has rhetorical lightning flashes but aspires to much greater straightforwardness than Fetherling's previous poetry.
Praise for Singer, An Elegy:
"Singer is a brilliant poem. Fetherling takes John Thompson's ghazal form, mixes in the cadences of Dennis Lee and William Carlos Williams and emerges with a masterpiece. It recovers the elegy for the 21st century." (George Elliott Clarke, Canada's seventh Poet Laureate)
Contributor Notes
George Fetherling is a writer, editor, teacher, publisher, scholar, and visual artist. He is the author or editor of over 50 books ranging from poetry and fiction to biographies, cinema history, Asian Pacific studies, and histories of the gold rushes and the rise of newspapers in Canada. Mr. Fetherling is a former literary editor of the 'Kingston Whig-Standard' and the 'Ottawa Citizen' and was awarded the Harbourfront Festival Prize in 1995 for his "substantial contribution to Canadian letters." He currently holds the post of books-and-ideas columnist at the 'Vancouver Sun'.
