{"product_id":"winter-in-halifax-paperback-2","title":"Winter in Halifax - 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\u003eThomas DeFreitas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinter in Halifax\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e are dreamy and conditional, achingly touching, and funny. Like the \"suitcase full of tatterdemalion language\" which the speaker in the title poem carries with him into the desolate pre-dawn city, along with his (grim) determination to celebrate, this collection is full of catalogues, surprising juxtapositions, vocabularies, rhythms, and rhymes. DeFreitas is a master and lover of language. And so the voice of these poems is alive and courageous, whether speaking of pain or of joy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHilary Sallick\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eAsking the Form\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinter in Halifax\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e fizzes with spring-its narrator, \"light-hearted as a florist in February,\" nurses faith and hope. DeFreitas preserves details of the everyday-coffee, the kitchen light, snow on gravestones, St. Agnes' bells-in lines that dance with rhythm and sing with rhyme. On display is precisely what the speaker in \"Lingua Franca\" wishes for: \"[a] lithe and limber idiom...sassy brassy palaver.\" Most moving are the poems of relationships: a boy at the beach with his father, a letter to a friend, a mother and son sharing memories. Tender and effervescent, this open-hearted work will surely hearten its readers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Buchinger\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ee i n f ü h l u n g\/in feeling\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinter in Halifax, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThomas DeFreitas frequently manages to be both exuberant and elegiac within the same poem. He celebrates the haunts of his native Boston; he offers homage to Our Lady of Cambridge, a \"spare-change Madonna.\" His skillful use of language and form unerringly serve what's being closely observed or recalled. It's clear that the poets he celebrates here-Lorca, Hart Crane, Roethke-have become deeply part of his own sensibility. Each heartfelt salute to a cherished someone or to a special season or to a lost soul shimmers with a sense of inexorable change and loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCathie Desjardins\u003c\/b\u003e, Poet Laureate Emerita of Arlington, MA; author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuddha in the Garden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 48\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.12 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47352532435193,"sku":"9781639800421","price":22.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/dXRHSTh0U0NBQVdFakl3UUFUT0ptQT09_7e0f49fe-f6db-435b-9b13-36229d1409ca.webp?v=1769811141","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/winter-in-halifax-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}