Disturbing the Buddha - Dempster, Barry
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Poetry. A beloved poet explores why life is so rich, even at the worst of times. DISTURBING THE BUDDHA, Barry Dempster's fifteenth collection, is disarmingly conversational and, like the best conversations, it moves between reverence and irreverence, sincerity and irony as it grapples with love, loss, loneliness and simple lack of luck--the 'three- leaf clovers' so much more plentiful than the four. Dempster's wit and playful metaphoric turns let us take for granted the courage needed to admit to life's ongoing intensities, disruptions, and indignities. In these poems, a forty-year-old man…mehr

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Poetry. A beloved poet explores why life is so rich, even at the worst of times. DISTURBING THE BUDDHA, Barry Dempster's fifteenth collection, is disarmingly conversational and, like the best conversations, it moves between reverence and irreverence, sincerity and irony as it grapples with love, loss, loneliness and simple lack of luck--the 'three- leaf clovers' so much more plentiful than the four. Dempster's wit and playful metaphoric turns let us take for granted the courage needed to admit to life's ongoing intensities, disruptions, and indignities. In these poems, a forty-year-old man dons a pink plastic crown on his niece's order; a solitary man watches a Nicole Kidman rom- com with his cat; an aging Aphrodite, more mortal than god, suffers hot flashes. Like the mystic poets he addresses in the book's final section, Dempster respects the unknown as he comes to terms with the ups and downs of the all-too-human condition.
Autorenporträt
Barry Dempster, twice nominated for the Governor General's Award, is the author of fourteen previous collections of poetry. His collection The Burning Alphabet won the Canadian Authors' Association Chalmers Award for Poetry in 2005. In 2010, he was a finalist for the Ontario Premier's Award for Excellence in the Arts and in 2014 he was nominated for the Trillium Award for his novel, The Outside World. He lives in Holland Landing, Ontario.