Outlasting the Weather
Selected & New Poems 1994-2020
Description
There is something of the elemental in Outlasting the Weather, Patrick Friesen's Selected and New poems 1994-2020. Over time, the elements shape new worlds. Wind carves a stone bowl, the earth receives our dead. The poems are archaeological digs through layers of a life lived without the certainty of belief. Covering twenty-six years and selected from eight previous volumes, the poems in this collection reject wisdom; rather, they are infused with the kind of knowledge that comes from having weathered many seasons yet still remaining open to wonder. Perhaps, writes Friesen of his late father, you are in that grave where we laid you but I am child enough to think the sky. And for a moment we all look up, transported, filled with the endless possibilities offered by a poet for whom poetry is a way of thinking. The volume wraps up with, "New Work," twenty-seven new poems that display the poet's vast and prodigious talents.
About this Author
Patrick Friesen has published more than a dozen books of poetry, a book of essays, stage and radio plays, three CDs of text and music, and has co-translated five books of Danish poetry. He won the McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year Award in 1994, and was runner-up for the Milton Acorn Memorial People's Poetry Award in 1996. Friesen has twice been a Dorothy Livesay Poetry Award nominee and once a Governor General Poetry's Award nominee. He won the P. K. Page Founders Award for Poetry in 2012, and the ReLit Award for Poetry the same year. In 2016 his co-translation of Ulrikka Gernes' Frayed Opus With Strings and Wind Instruments was short-listed for the Griffin Trust Poetry Award. He won the Most Outstanding New Work Award for Winnipeg Theatre Awards in 2018. He lives in Victoria, BC.
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