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list price: $17.95
edition:Paperback
category: Poetry
published: Oct 2011
ISBN:9780889822801
publisher: Oolichan Books

YVR

by W. H. New

tagged: canadian
Description

YVR weaves a suite of lyrics into a powerful long poem, a citywide Vancouversong. Combining memoir, civic history, love song, and social critique, it's a highly personal poem, vividly rooted in Vancouver life, and at the same time a charged portrait of social change. In three parts, it begins in disaffection and disruption, tracks its way back into images of childhood (bush, beach, boys at war), and then moves forward again, celebrating “?the sawtooth Coast” and the river, “the shingle house of interruption” and the polyphonic voices of the city now. A poem about instability and edges--about seeing them, addressing them, embracing them--at its heart is a remarkable walk the length of Main Street. To read this book is to live the city: it will fret you, rankle you, jar you and surprise you. It will take you into the city that only a few people know, and it will touch your heart.

About the Author

W. H. New

Contributor Notes

W. H. New lives in Vancouver. Among his many books are Underwood Log, which was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for Poetry, Borderlands, Grandchild of Empire, Touching Ecuador, and The Year I Was Grounded. Among New's academic works is The Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada which he edited. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2006.

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