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Karen Mulhallen - Scent Of Spring, Elegies Out Of Season, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Scent Of Spring, Elegies Out Of Season

Av Karen Mulhallen

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The Scent of Spring gathers fifteen elegies of documentary witness that bear testimony to the crises of our age. Karen Mulhallen's poems move across continents and situations: a child picking his way through the ruins of Mosul; an activist working to rescue pigs bound for slaughter; a biblical figure turning away from refugees drowning in the Mediterranean; a beggar woman in Toronto sharing an Asian pear; a Japanese fisherman meeting a spirit bear on Canada's west coast. Binding individual grief to collective tragedy, the collection is, in Alberto Manguel's words, an admirable, necessary memento mori for our anguished times.
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Karen Mulhallen is a Canadian poet, editor, teacher and publisher who has been influential in the development of Canadian literature. Over several decades she edited the non-profit journals Descant and The Canadian Forum, and served as a professor of English literature at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University). She is the author of some two dozen books of poetry and prose.

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In The Scent of Spring: Elegies Out of Season, Mulhallen moves through various cities and geographies narrating elegies of loss, of cultural murder. In this poetry of atrocity, the poet is asking us to face the devastation we have wrought through war, greed, and careless inattention. But she also writes elegies radiant with love. She ends the book with the image of the West Coast Spirit Bear, "ghost bear, giver of miracles, healer." We have ravaged and defaced. Now we must learn again to celebrate. - Rosemary Sullivan, Author of Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva.; Karen Muhallen has wisely chosen the elegy as the keenest instrument to bear witness to our disappearing world. With exquisite elegance and ironic humour, her logbook of things seen and unseen is an admirable, necessary memento mori for our anguished times. - Alberto Manguel

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