Meeting Thoreau at the Gas Station Diner

Windsor, ON's renowned poet and storyteller returns with a profoundly personal poetic memoir of a foundational time in North America. Gervais returns us to an era defined hitchhiking, psychedelic music, and the politics of Vietnam. The era of the unbridled open road, the freedom of movement across a land and place we had yet to come to terms with. An ecological text of people and lives and uniquely Canadian places this is exploration of self personified. Saturated with the vibrancy of life and detail, Gervais bring us along with him, viewing the world though roll-up car windows, finding its mood in late night AM radio, and finds its community in the superstitions, loves, and longings of people Gervais discovers along the way.

About the author

Marty Gervais, the City of Windsor's inaugural Poet Laureate, and now Poet Laureate Emeritus, is a Canadian poet, photographer, journalist, and teacher. He has won many literary awards including the prestigious Toronto's Harbourfront Festival Prize for his contributions to Canadian letters and emerging writers, the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award, and the City of Windsor's Mayor's Award. Gervais, whose book The Rumrunners, was a Canadian bestseller, is also the recipient of 16 Western Ontario Newspaper Awards for journalism and was given the Queen's Jubilee Medal.

Product details

• Authors: Marty (C H ) Gervais
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.04.2022
• EAN: 9781988214481
• ISBN: 978-1-988214-48-1
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 122 g
• Series: Crossroads Poetry
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Places & peoples: general & pictorial works, POETRY / General, TRAVEL / Pictorials, Poetry, Places and peoples: general and pictorial works, Poetry; Canada; Road Trip; Hitchhiking; Sixties; Literature