Calvin Wharton (48 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Some notes in pencil crayon on back panel, some discolouring of front panel, else a clean copy, solid binding. Contains work by Bert Almon, Margo Button, Marlene Cookshaw and others.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. This Here Paradise begins with an epigraph from the work of Welsh poet, Menna Elfyn: "your language a hymn/ lost in the multitude,/ requiem for a world/ that's forgetting how to be". As if in response to this "forgetting," Wharton's poems move from the personal to cross a panorama of hopeful attentiveness. Clear images combine with a distinctive sense of rhythm and music to shape a collection both straight-ahead readable and carefully thoughtful, serious and playful. There is a recognition that paradise includes both highs and lows. The presumptive duality of these two conditions suggests a tension that resolves through the book's five sections, as Wharton opens a suitcase of birds and watches them soar over a landscape alive with radiant, open waters.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 'The Song Collides' takes the reader on a highly personal and internal metaphysical investigation into the state of the natural world-and then back again via more lyrical and local enquiries that speak to each and every one of us. Life is an exchange: each of us takes in the world and then expresses it for ourselves and for others. This is a simultaneous and nearly imperceptible process that lasts, we hope, at least until the exit. Calvin Wharton's poems in 'The Song Collides' pulse and soar with the sounds of beautiful music. Whether a specific one of 'The Song Collides'' lyrics, prose poems, sonnets, or elegies mentions music or not, Wharton's mastery of his art never fails to bring his words to resonant life in the ear and mind. He is a connoisseur of precise details that, transformed through his attention to the musicality of language, ring within the reader's memory like a favourite tune. -Tom Wayman, author of 'High Speed Through Shoaling Water' Here is a poetry ofgentle surprises, of the enjoyment of "salt air, sweet water / qualities that feed days / and grow into years," of ironies that enrich, "every answer lost in the question following." And even when we are reminded of everyday "skimpy wishes," how good to read these nuances so carefully shaped for our pleasure, each reminding us to "begin wherever you are, / but first look around." - David Zieroth, 'The Fly in Autumn' Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This Here Paradise begins with an epigraph from the work of Welsh poet, Menna Elfyn: "your language a hymn/ lost in the multitude,/ requiem for a world/ that's forgetting how to be". As if in response to this "forgetting," Wharton's poems move from the personal to cross a panorama of hopeful attentiveness. Clear images combine with a distinctive sense of rhythm and music to shape a collection both straight-ahead readable and carefully thoughtful, serious and playful. There is a recognition that paradise includes both highs and lows. The presumptive duality of these two conditions suggests a tension that resolves through the book's five sections, as Wharton opens a suitcase of birds and watches them soar over a landscape alive with radiant, open waters. "The amazing pageant of birds, negotiating exercise and sports in later years, and an appreciation of the natural world."-- Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Contains work by Tim Bowling, Terence Young and others, light edgewear else fine.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, 2002. Signed, Inscribed, and Dated by author on Title page, Feb.19/05.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Creative Non-Fiction Contest #12 Winners, plus work by A.F. Moritz, Elizabeth Brewster and others. Rubbed at spine and lightly around edges, else fine.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Condition: Good.

Condition: New.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Canadian Edition. 141pp. Photo illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and tight, not creased. Octavo. Book appears unread. This is Calvin Wharton's first book of short stories.

Condition: New.

Trade Paperback Original. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Short stories. Inscribed by author on title page "For ___ / Thanks for your support / Calvin Wharton". Signed by Author.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. East of Main: An Anthology of Poems From East Vancouver. Pulp Press, 1989. Vintage softcover. Back cover has some wear to corners. Front cover has some light shelf wear. Good condition.

Paperback. Condition: New. Special order item direct from the distributor.

Condition: New.