G�tterd�mmerung

by Len Gasparini

Overview

Götterdämmerung is Len Gasparini's fifteenth book of poetry since the early 1970s. What distinguishes this collection from his earlier work is the long title poem: a tour de force that covers new ground in the genre of ecopoetics by launching an acerbic yet lyrical assault on the Anthropocene. Other poems explore such diverse themes as memory, art, and botany. Also included are three literary essays that evince the importance of language and imagination.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771835473
Publisher:	Guernica Editions, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/01/2020
Series:	Essential Poets series , #280
Pages:	70
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Len Gasparini is the award winning author of numerous books of poetry, five short-story collections, two children’s books, a work of non-fiction, and a one-act play.

Editorial Reviews

Len Gasparini’s poems are sung with passion in a rich, original language. These poems are not pieced dryly together out of what Blake called a ‘mechanical talent’ for language, they arise unbidden and necessary.

The Toronto Star

A reading of The Social Life of String will demonstrate what attending to life looks like as Gasparini turns the world into poetry.

The Pacific Rim Review of Books

Götterdämmerung joins a recent body of environmental poetry — see work by Juliana Spahr and Jorie Graham, among others — that recognizes the irremediably damaged state of our environment and eschews grand visions of an unblemished nature beyond civilization’s reach. It tests the powers of a nature poetry that has abandoned hope for ecological restoration. The poem’s kaleidoscopic structure reflects the disorder and disharmony it depicts. An Eliotic shoring of fragments against ruins — rather than any kind of wholesale renewal of the earth — seems all that is possible amid the destruction.

Literary Review of Canada

On the Snows of Yesteryear:


"Provocative ... these stories dig into the human condition and leave a lasting impression. - The Pacific Rim Review of Books


Moving and universal. - The Toronto Star Len Gasparini's The Undertaker's Wife is an elegant collection of short stories that are densely layered and rich enough to function almost as mini-novels. Particularly impressive are Frank and Millie, which charts the cross-currents of desire among three young people in 1960s Ontario, and Montego Bay, a traveller's tale featuring a Canadian tourist adrift on Jamaica's mean streets. — Tom Sandborn, The Globe & Mail


On The Undertaker's Wife:


"Gasparini's descriptive skills and psychological insight are repeatedly evident. His dialogue is bracingly candid." —The Globe and Mail


"Trenchant, sometimes darkly brooding . . . Gasparini's stories may take many readers out of the realm of their own lives and, often, out of the usual reader comfort zone." —The Chattahoochee Review

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