Bibliograph

Vanishing act, Giles Blunt

Type

Label

Vanishing act, Giles Blunt

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

Vanishing act

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Giles Blunt

Series statement

Exile Series, Number 328

Summary

When Giles Blunt's first crime novel appeared, the Toronto Star said it "immediately raises the bar of Canadian crime fiction." With Vanishing Act, his debut collection of verse, Blunt delivers equally potent strength and quality, opening up for the reader a new, "wicked pack of cards" -- in that deck, a cast of characters that speak to the different stages of personal journey: coming of age, heartbreak, terrible loss, the fear of death, philosophical musing, and the personal apocalypse that may one day come. But more than anything, this rich sequence of poems is about how our personal identity changes over a lifetime. Blunt's devotion to structure is on full display in this collection, from cinquains to sapphics, from ballad to blank verse. This is not dry intellectualism or a stumbling over spurious epiphanies. Rather, red-blooded passion and emotional dynamics drive us through a panorama of city streets, along open highways, across bridges that connect or sometimes fail, and onward to the beaches and fields and all the spaces in between where we may lose our way – or unexpectedly find ourselves

Table Of Contents

Cover -- Half-Title -- Formatting note -- Title Page -- Credits -- Dedication -- Contents -- WHO I WASN'T -- Lazarus -- After the Photograph -- December, Queen Street -- Night in the Gatineaux -- The Obscure Lover -- Three-by-Five -- The Renunciation -- THREE BY LAUREN -- Darling -- Thin Ice -- Leg-hold Trap -- VANISHING ACT -- The Car -- Fool -- Pick a Card -- Host -- Lucy -- Priestess -- Marriage -- River -- Asleep at the Wheel -- King -- Lucy's View -- The Potential -- All This Time -- Hermit -- Tower -- The Wisdom of Solomon -- Off the Hook -- A Gold Chain -- Star -- Dreams of RescueThe Moon -- This Crosses Her -- Death Warmed Over -- An Email from R. -- Home -- Horseman -- Remember Keep Holy -- The Great Migration -- All That Was Mortal -- Vanishing

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