{"product_id":"vermeers-light-poems-1996-2006-paperback","title":"Vermeer's Light: Poems 1996-2006 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorge Bowering\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Bowering has always maintained many of his poems are germinated in secret ways--secrets he has, until now, assiduously kept to himself. In suddenly giving most of those secrets away, \u003cem\u003eVermeer's Light\u003c\/em\u003e, much of it written while Bowering was \"in office\" as Canada's first poet laureate, constitutes an extraordinary gesture of generosity from a poet to his readership who has so honoured him. Its alphabet series \u003cem\u003eA, You're Adorable\u003c\/em\u003e, by \"Ellen Field,\" a pseudonym Bowering often used in the nineties; \u003cem\u003eImaginary Poems for AMB\u003c\/em\u003e, addressed to his late wife Angela; \u003cem\u003eHe Is Not\u003c\/em\u003e, a micro-translation of Shelley's \u003cem\u003eAdonais; Q\u0026amp;A\u003c\/em\u003e, which dares to take on the most fundamental questions of the human condition with levelheaded honesty and wit--the list of revelations and the pyrotechnics of Bowering's craft presented here are spellbinding. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the greatest astonishment about this celebratory collection from a poet at the height of his powers is that it contains all eight variations of \"Grandfather,\" Bowering's most anthologized poem to date, set into an essay, \u003cem\u003eRewriting My Grandfather\u003c\/em\u003e, like eight jewels in a crown at the end of the book. It is here that the poet presents his readers with a voyage of discovery; that the buried treasure of his invisible but adamantine craft is to be found; and the gift of entrance into how George Bowering creates his work is revealed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Bowering, Canada's first Poet Laureate, was born in the Okanagan Valley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter serving as an aerial photographer in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Bowering earned a BA in English and an MA in history at the University of British Columbia, where he became one of the co-founders of the avant-garde poetry magazine \u003cem\u003eTISH\u003c\/em\u003e. He has taught literature at the University of Calgary, the University of Western Ontario, and Simon Fraser University, and he continues to act as a Canadian literary ambassador at international conferences and readings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA distinguished novelist, poet, editor, professor, historian, and tireless supporter of fellow writers, Bowering has authored more than eighty books, including works of poetry, fiction, autobiography, biography and youth fiction. His writing has also been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, Chinese, and Romanian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBowering has twice won the Governor General's Award, Canada's top literary prize. In 2019 he received the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement for an outstanding literary career in British Columbia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48753904255225,"sku":"9780889225657","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/MI1GlMlyzW9780889225657.webp?v=1785850073","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/vermeers-light-poems-1996-2006-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}