Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, Date: 1997. A few tiny marks on the cover; internally clean, unmarked and soundly bound. 238 pages including an index of first lines. . First Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine.. 1997. Porcupine's Quill ISBN 0889841934 9780889841932 [CA]

ISBN10: 0889841934, ISBN13: 9780889841932, [publisher: Porcupine's Quill Inc.,Canada] Softcover
[Ottawa, ON, Canada] [Publication Year: 1997]

ISBN10: 0889841934, ISBN13: 9780889841932, [publisher: Erin, Ontario, Canada: Porcupines Quill] Softcover Original printed wraps. 240 pp. Octavo. `The mystical and transcendental are fundamental to Page's sensibility. Yet when she is most obviously a visionary, her poetry is least effective. The "gold smiles" of her angels are unconvincing; her golden seraphim are too assured to create the tension on which poetry thrives. She becomes successful when her vision is acted out in natural settings using less "poetic" symbolism, and when the visionary world is counterpoised with the humdrum, banal, or violent. In an effective poem like "The Bands & the Beautiful Children", music and the imagination are set against the reality of "straggling grass" and "men tired and grumbling" In her best poems she goes beyond such dualities. "Stories of Snow" tells of those living in a world of "great flowers.with reds and blues" who dream of a world of whiteness, hunters, and death. What makes this poem remarkable, aside from its dream-inducing cadence and its paradoxical rhymes, is the irony that the white, violent terrain is also gentle, mystical, and as beautiful as the lush, colourful one. This blurring of the typical dichotomies gives the poem a layered depth, a metaphysical aura.' -- Books in Canada Printed offset by Tim Inkster on the Heidelberg KORD at ...

Porcupines Quill, Date: 1997. Paperback. New. 240 pages. 9.00x5.50x1.00 inches. 1997. Porcupines Quill ISBN 0889841934 9780889841932 [GB]

Porcupines Quill 1997 Softcover New 240 pages. 9.00x5.50x1.00 inches.

ISBN10: 0889841934, ISBN13: 9780889841932, [publisher: Porcupine's Quill Inc.,Canada, Erin, Ontario] Softcover Volume 2 only. 1st printing of Volume 2. Sunning to the spine. Slight ink staining to top edge of text block, otherwise it's good and sturdy. "Signed" by P.K. Page on the title page, not with a signature, but with the hand-drawn symbol she used in place of her signature. Scarce thus. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
[Westmount, QC, Canada] [Publication Year: 1997]