Haunted Hills and Hanging Valleys: Selected Poems 1969-2004
- Peter Trower
- Foreword by: Don McKay
- Description
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Thirty-five years after the publication of his first book, Peter Trower has brought together his finest poems for the beautiful, thorough and definitive volume Haunted Hills and Hanging Valleys.
From whistle punk to smelter worker to faller to crane operator, Trower worked up and down the West Coast for 22 years collecting the stories and soaking in the vivid imagery and personalities that would characterize much of his perceptively crafted, musical poetry. Haunted Hills and Hanging Valleys presents for the first time the best work of a writing career that has drawn Trower praise as "the poet laureate of this mountain kingdom" from Al Purdy and for "heft and passion and a gift for telling place and detail" from Irving Layton. This long-awaited book will confirm Trower's place as one of our country's most important poets.
"It's high time [Trower] was recognized more widely as the gifted and versatile force in Canadian poetry that he is. If this fine selection can't garner such recognition, it's hard to imagine what will."
-Zachariah WellsThe Danforth Review
–Danforth
"...one thing is clear: this book really is striking a nerve with poets everywhere... Trower's poems, as capricious and harrowing as they can be (men maimed, alcoholism, dead dreams, dire regret), have an internally consistent language, a bunkhouse vernacular that he wrests beauty from... They're tough poems, vigorous poems, angry poems, hard poems, tender but unsentimental poems, poems that, though short in line length, are mighty in terms of effect... This is a very necessary poet."
- Shane Neilson, ARC
–ARC
Harbour Publishing
ISBN: 9781550173116
Paperback / softback
6.0 in x 9.0 in - 160 pp
Publication Date: 01/04/2004
BISAC Subject(s): POE011000-POETRY / Canadian, POE000000-POETRY / General
Description
Thirty-five years after the publication of his first book, Peter Trower has brought together his finest poems for the beautiful, thorough and definitive volume Haunted Hills and Hanging Valleys.
From whistle punk to smelter worker to faller to crane operator, Trower worked up and down the West Coast for 22 years collecting the stories and soaking in the vivid imagery and personalities that would characterize much of his perceptively crafted, musical poetry. Haunted Hills and Hanging Valleys presents for the first time the best work of a writing career that has drawn Trower praise as "the poet laureate of this mountain kingdom" from Al Purdy and for "heft and passion and a gift for telling place and detail" from Irving Layton. This long-awaited book will confirm Trower's place as one of our country's most important poets.
"It's high time [Trower] was recognized more widely as the gifted and versatile force in Canadian poetry that he is. If this fine selection can't garner such recognition, it's hard to imagine what will."
-Zachariah WellsThe Danforth Review
–Danforth
"...one thing is clear: this book really is striking a nerve with poets everywhere... Trower's poems, as capricious and harrowing as they can be (men maimed, alcoholism, dead dreams, dire regret), have an internally consistent language, a bunkhouse vernacular that he wrests beauty from... They're tough poems, vigorous poems, angry poems, hard poems, tender but unsentimental poems, poems that, though short in line length, are mighty in terms of effect... This is a very necessary poet."
- Shane Neilson, ARC
–ARC
Details
Harbour Publishing
ISBN: 9781550173116
Paperback / softback
6.0 in x 9.0 in - 160 pp
Publication Date: 01/04/2004
BISAC Subject(s): POE011000-POETRY / Canadian, POE000000-POETRY / General