David Zieroth

the bridge from day to night (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The title poem in David Zieroth's the bridge from day to night follows the speaker across the Second Narrows Bridge to North Vancouver, a well-worn moment in a daily commute that opens a window into the sublime: "from the apex / of the bridge with traffic flying / I look directly into / their deepest clefts." Such moments occur throughout the collection, as Zieroth explores the resonance built from layers of such ordinary moments as they accumulate throughout a lifetime-indistinct and imperceptible as they occur, but creating unseen undercurrents through memory and time.

In this temporal landscape, the natural world becomes a touchstone, both entangled in and standing apart from the speaker's internal narrative: "I brought from that forming hour a / precise smell of foliage: funeral wreaths / bore an acid scent." Shifting fluidly through time, the speaker grows from a child to understand, reflect and then outlive his parents. Finally, the collection lights on the incongruities and contradictions in death: "still later I kick his flattened corpse / to the gutter, and it skids on concrete / a broken valise, weightless / on this segment of the journey."

With his characteristic humour, subtlety and ability to find transcendence in the everyday, Zieroth traces the delicate strands connecting the most minute and familiar details to the most profound mysteries, giving voice to the unknowable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd.
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781550178364
• Artikelnr.: 51394151

Autorenporträt

David Zieroth has published many books of poetry including The Fly in Autumn (2009), which won the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry, How I Joined Humanity at Last (1998), which won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, the bridge from day to night (2018) and most recently, watching for life (2022.) He taught at Douglas College in New Westminster, BC, before retiring and founding The Alfred Gustav Press. Born in Neepawa, MB, he lives in North Vancouver, BC.