Testament

Cover title: Testament Poems (2000-2011).

About the author

Dennis Lee is the author of more than twenty books, including Civil Elegies, which won the Governor General's Literary Award, and Alligator Pie, the children's classic. His most recent collection of poems is Testament.

Summary

Testament is the summation of Dennis Lee’s decade-long exploration of the dilemma of contemporary existence. Incorporating and rethinking the work published in Un and Yesno, and featuring many completely new poems, this startling collection reminds us anew of the catastrophic reality we have made of our planet, while simultaneously insisting on a particular kind of hope for our future. Testament continues Lee’s radical and inventive use of language, shaping the familiar into the shockingly new. It is a landmark achievement, and a fitting end to one of the most ambitious projects in Canadian poetry.

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" … [a] stellar achievement."—Winnipeg Free Press

"Testament spectacularly channels the inconceivable … [a] great work." —Telegraph Journal

Product details

• Authors: Dennis Lee, Lee Dennis
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.2012
• EAN: 9781770891111
• ISBN: 978-1-77089-111-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 215 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 184 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets