Night Work

by Randall Maggs

A hockey saga, wrapping the game's story in the "intense, moody, contradictory? character of Terry Sawchuk, one of its greatest goalies.

Denied the leap and dash up the ice,
what goalies know is side to side, an inwardness of monk
and cell. They scrape. They sweep. Their eyes are elsewhere
as they contemplate their narrow place. Like saints, they pray for nothing,
which brings grace. Off-days, what they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1894078624
• ISBN13: 9781894078627
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Brick Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

doesn't get any better

Maggs research, style and feeling are eloquently portayed in these poems. My father was a hockey nut. Every time I pick up Night Work I think about him and Terry and Gordie and the game.