The Long Walk
"The Long Walk carries a lifetime's force of meaning. A deeply beautiful book." Anne Michaels



In The Long Walk, Jan Zwicky bears witness to environmental and cultural cataclysm. Both prophetic and acutely personal, these poems extend her previous meditations on colonial barbarism and ecocide, on spiritual catastrophe and transformation. The voice now penetrates the steepest darknesses; it possesses extraordinary reach and density. Zwicky is one of North America's finest poets, and in this book she gives us her most profound work to date.

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The Long Walk
"The Long Walk carries a lifetime's force of meaning. A deeply beautiful book." Anne Michaels



In The Long Walk, Jan Zwicky bears witness to environmental and cultural cataclysm. Both prophetic and acutely personal, these poems extend her previous meditations on colonial barbarism and ecocide, on spiritual catastrophe and transformation. The voice now penetrates the steepest darknesses; it possesses extraordinary reach and density. Zwicky is one of North America's finest poets, and in this book she gives us her most profound work to date.

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The Long Walk

The Long Walk

by Jan Zwicky
The Long Walk

The Long Walk

by Jan Zwicky

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"The Long Walk carries a lifetime's force of meaning. A deeply beautiful book." Anne Michaels



In The Long Walk, Jan Zwicky bears witness to environmental and cultural cataclysm. Both prophetic and acutely personal, these poems extend her previous meditations on colonial barbarism and ecocide, on spiritual catastrophe and transformation. The voice now penetrates the steepest darknesses; it possesses extraordinary reach and density. Zwicky is one of North America's finest poets, and in this book she gives us her most profound work to date.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780889774490
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Publication date: 10/01/2016
Series: Oskana Poetry and Poetics , #2
Pages: 65
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Winner of the Governor General's Award for poetry and the Dorothy Livesay Prize, Jan Zwicky has published more than a dozen books of poetry and prose, including Songs for Relinquishing the EarthForge, and Wisdom & Metaphor. She lives in Victoria, BC.

Table of Contents

Courage

I

Into the Gap

To the Pass

Gate

Break

Securing the House

Depth

II

Witness

Near

In the Shadow of a New Age

Desire

Grief

The Old Dream

Terminal

Night Farm

Leaving

Intelligence

Nocturne, Upper Gagetown, 21 August 1991



III

Departure at Dawn

Brahms: Ballade in B Minor, Opus 10 No. 4

Yes

No

Meditation Looking West from the Berkeley Hills

Philosophy

Physics

IV

Other People’s Country

Under the Storm

The Ruined Garden

Europe

The Last Adagio

Late Love

Into the Dark

Consummatum est

Letter to Simplikios

In Winter

Humility

Seeing

Above the Falls

Haydn: The Unpublished Sonatas

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