In the Vision of Birds: New and Selected Poems - Softcover

Steve Luxton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1897190832 ISBN 13: 9781897190838

Publisher: DC Books, 2012

Synopsis

Long before the current rise of eco-poetry, Steve Luxton was writing powerful and exquisitely crafted poems about and set in nature. An avid fisherman, canoeist and hiker, he has explored and recorded in memorable detail the region around his home in Quebec. This important collection brings together for the first time Luxton s best nature poems written over the last 35 years and includes new and previously unpublished work. Influenced by well-known fellow poets and Eastern Townshippers, F. R. Scott, Louis Dudek, Ralph Gustafson, and D.G. Jones, Luxton has developed a mature and authoritative voice uniquely his own. Rich in language and metaphor, these poems dazzle at times with their depth and dissolve the barrier between Man and Nature. With a true and finely honed poetic gift, Luxton vividly portrays the natural world s green particulars-what the Zen Buddhists term The Ten Thousand Things. Unsentimentally Post pastoral and also post Romantic, Luxton employs his eyes, ears, heart, and mind, with non-appropriating eloquence.

About this title

About the Author

Steve Luxton was born in Coventry, England, immigrated as a child to Toronto, Canada. He gained a BA in Political Science and Economics from the University of Toronto, and an MA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University where he studied under the poets W.D. Snodgrass and Phillip Booth. He has taught literature and creative writing at Champlain, Vanier and John Abbott Colleges, as well as at Bishops and Concordia Universities. In addition to the chapbook, Torrents Gate: Thomas Wolfe Visits Quebec, he has published five volumes of poetry: Late Romantics (with Robert Allen and Mark Teicher), the hills that pass by, Iridium, Luna Moth and Other Poems, and In the Vision of Birds. In recognition for his energetic support and promotion of English-language literature in Quebec, he was awarded the Quebec Writers Federations Judy Mappin Community Prize. He lives with his wife the poet Angela Leuck in the Eastern Townships village of Hatley."

Edition details

• Publisher: DC Books
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1897190832
• ISBN 13: 9781897190838
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100