Narrow Cradle

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MIRAMICHI READER'S 'THE VERY BEST!' POETRY AWARD**
In Narrow Cradle, Wade Kearley explores the midlife encounter with mortality and the ways we strive to resist, deny, cheat, and even bargain with it. Grounded in both traditional and modern poetic forms, these poems find in the transience of life a new kind of freedom, a rebirth independent of personal circumstance. In crisp, direct, and vivid language--swerving between sonnet, villanelle, and sestina--Kearley offers a compelling collection by turns vicious, lost, ragged, and regal.

About the author

Wade Kearley is the author of seven books, including the poetry collections Drawing on Water and Let Me Burn like This, and the travel books The People's Road and The People's Road Revisited, based on his 900-kilometer trek along Newfoundland's abandoned rail line. He lives in St. John's.

Product details

• Authors: Wade Kearley
• Publisher: Breakwater Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781550818154
• ISBN: 978-1-55081-815-4
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 124 mm x 193 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 136 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies