Strike/Slip

by Don McKay

In this extraordinary collection from one of our most celebrated poets, Don McKay walks the strike-slip fault between poetry and landscape, sticks its strange nose into the cold silence of geologic time, meditates on marble, quartz and gneiss, and attends to the songs of ravens and thrushes and to the clamour of the industrialized bush. Behind these poems lies the urge to engage the tectonics of planetary dwelling with the rickety contraption of language,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0771055439
• ISBN13: 9780771055430
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.0"