Footnotes: Poems of Loss, the Passage of Time and Mortality - Softcover

Forsyth, David J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 177244202X ISBN 13: 9781772442021

Verlag: Rock's Mills Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

A yellow plate and plastic fork,In trash-bag tossed, / Tell nothing of the past nor her / Brief life, now lost. / Instead a few sweet crumbs upon / The plate remain, / Remnants of what no longer is. / We share the pain.---from "Crumbs on a Yellow Plate"

In Footnotes, Hamilton area author and poet David J. Forsyth presents a lifetime's worth of poems, many of them dealing with the theme of human mortality. Forsyth has appended a brief footnote to each poem, recalling the circumstances of its creation and the challenges that he faced in writing it. The result is a collection that both readers of poetry and practising poets themselves will cherish.

"A satisfying and inspiring gift to readers.... Death is the topic of many poems, notably the deaths of the poet’s father and grandfathers. But these are not poems of lamentation, they are primarily poems of meditation, intense meditation. They are poems to read, poems to remember and re-read, poems that will connect with your own life and thought, poems to reconsider. They are deceptively simple, and always accessible. They matter." --Alan Bishop, D.Phil.

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David J. Forsyth is a Canadian author whose ancestors emigrated from the British Isles in the early 20th century. His values and perspectives were shaped by the descendants of Irish weavers, Scottish crofters and English labourers. He began his career as a commercial artist and copy writer, and didn't complete his first manuscript until after he retired.His book Too Cold for Mermaids recounts his sailing adventures while cruising the North Atlantic coasts and inland waterways of Canada and the United States. He has also published a collection of poetry, Footnotes, a short story collection, and a memoir.A life-long passion for genealogical research, and a desire to preserve the fragile histories of ordinary people, inspired him to devote four years to researching and writing Alice and the Machine Gunner, the story of a London war-bride and the soldier with whom she fell in love.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Rock's Mills Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 177244202X
• ISBN 13: 9781772442021
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 66
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