Apostrophes II

through you I

By E.D. Blodgett
Categories: Literature & Language Studies, Poetry
Series: cuRRents
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Paperback : 9780888643049, 80 pages, January 1998

Description

Here, in the second volume of a series, E.D. Blodgett extends the meditations of Apostrophes: woman at a piano, which won the Governor General's award for poetry in 1996. An astonishing hybrid of Symboliste vision and Elizabethan form, through you I is a lovely offering from one of Canada's leading writers.

Awards

  • AAUP Book, Jacket & Journal Show - Poetry & Literature 1998
  • The Alcuin Society Citations for Excellence in Book Design in Canada - Third Prize, Poetry 1998

Reviews

"Blodgett shows that he has the courage to go way out on a limb when his poetics demand it.. Apostrophes II contains the finest verse I've read in a long time. In terms of technical excellence and intellectual excitement, I was reminded throughout of Eliot.... every poem stopped me cold with passages of such beauty that I simply had to reread them again and again." James Deahl, CBRA