Selected Poems

by Margaret Avison and Cleo Qian

This is the first selection of Margaret Avison's poems, spanning a distinguished career from the 1950s to the present. One of Canada's greatest poets, twice winner of the Governor-General's Award for poetry, Avison is an introspective modern poet with roots in the 17th-century traditions of metaphysical and meditational poetry. Her complex and demanding work is admired by a younger generation of poets and critics for its originality and versatility...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195408594
• ISBN13: 9780195408591
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Canada
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"