Shimmers of Light: New and Selected Poems

by Robert Currie

Robert Currie's Shimmers of Light: New and Selected Poems uses the vernacular of ordinary working people to tell stories and sing songs of small-town prairie life. Like Alden Nowlan, or more recently, Billy Collins, this poet constructs poems from the unvarnished wood of common language--there's no veneer, no glossing over here. These poems "work like small exquisite time machines . . ." writes poet Lorna Crozier in her introduction to this extensive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771872187
• ISBN13: 9781771872188
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Thistledown Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"