The Sylvia Hotel Poems

Fetherling, George

ISBN 10: 0981018696 / ISBN 13: 9780981018690

Published by Quattro Books, Thornhill, Ontario, 2010

About this Item

Inscribed on the title page by George Fetherling; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Sylvia Hotel Poems
• Publisher: Quattro Books, Thornhill, Ontario
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0981018696
• ISBN 13: 9780981018690
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Canadian First.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

"I was fortunate to love you in my heart." Vancouver's venerable, ivy-covered Sylvia Hotel, famed haunt of artists, writers, and lovers, provides the setting for this series of deeply personal reflections on the matter of unrequited love. Eloquent and aphoristic in expression, worldly-wise in tone, and laden with feeling, every one of these masterful poems will speak to, and for, all who have lived "close to the lip of ecstasy and despair" and "cannot / wash the truth out of themselves." Melancholy, forbearing, wistful, and irrepressibly witty, The Sylvia Hotel Poems is a sustained triumph of style, of character, and of human understanding.