Born Sacred
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dear Hermes...
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By turns joyous and adventurous, melancholy and nostalgic, Michelle Smith's debut collection of poems showcases a wide-ranging fascination with places, people, and story. Smith's limpid and humane handling of an array of themes, emotions, and styles-her Norwegian ancestry, her Canadian Prairie heritage, the significance of family, the fragility of memory, world travel, ekphrasis, myth, and more-exemplifies the lyric self on a poetic grand tour, or pilgrimage, to meet the world. Framed by imaginative travelogues addressed to Greek gods, dear Hermes... offers readers an escape and an entrance-out of time and into the poet's luminous experience. Readers who appreciate clear lyric and fleet voicing will relish Smith's poetry.
Michelle Smith is a poet and Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.
- ISBN-13
- 9780888645975
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press
- Imprint
- University of Alberta Press
- Publication date
- 20 February 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 88
- Dimensions
- 229 x 133 mm
- Language
- English
