The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology A Selection of the 2002 Shortlist,9780887846762

The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology A Selection of the 2002 Shortlist

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ISBN13: 9780887846762
ISBN10: 0887846769
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-06-01
Publisher(s): House of Anansi Press
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Summary

The second volume of The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology includes selections from the international and Canadian books shortlisted for the 2002 prize, chosen and introduced by jurors Dionne Brand, Robert Creeley, and Michael Hofmann.Edited by award-winning poet Esta Spalding, this book is a one-stop shop for poems from each of the seven shortlisted collections: Canadian Prize winner Eunoia by Christian Bok; Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person by Erin Moure; Short Haul Engine by Karen Solie; Maraca: New and Selected Poems 1965-2000 by Victor Hernandez Cruz; Homer: War Music by Christopher Logue; Conscious and Verbal by Les Murray (FSG); and International Prize winner Disobedience by Alice Notley.Royalties generated from The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology are donated to UNESCO's World Poetry Day.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
David Young
International Finalists
Maraca
Victor Hernandez Cruz
Mesa Blanca
5(14)
Homer: War Music
Christopher Logue
Pax
19(16)
Conscious and Verbal
Les Murray
Travel with John Hunter
35(4)
Aurora Prone
39(1)
A Dog's Elegy
40(1)
You Find You Can Leave It All
41(2)
Four Character Porcelain Ode
43(6)
Disobedience
Alice Notley
Change the Forms in Dreams
49(3)
Where Is the Babylonian Meter with Its Lovely Caesura?
52(4)
The Usual and the Most Tenuous of Goodbyes
56(9)
Canadian Finalists
Eunoia
Christian Bok
Chapter E
65(5)
Chapter I
70(7)
Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person
Eirin Moure
At sunset, bending out the window
77(2)
The Humber is pretty fabulous, really
79(2)
If I could chew on the whole earth
81(2)
So I'm a mystic. And then?
83(2)
From the highest window of my house on Winnett
85(4)
Short Haul Engine
Karen Solie
Sturgeon
89(1)
Action at a Distance
90(2)
Anniversary
92(1)
In Passing
93(2)
In-Flight Movie
95(2)
Ill Wind
97(2)
About the Poets 99(4)
Acknowledgements 103

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