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In six essays, poet and novelist Anne Simpson traces the paths of her thoughts, from observation to association, through poetry, language and metaphor, otherness and wilderness. Walking the beaches and trails near her home in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Simpson studies the connections between outdoors and inner life. A hike along a local ridge and the sighting of an owl spurs an examination of birdsong and its kinship with poetry, whose own perch is somewhere near the edge of grammar, beyond sure knowledge, where resonance and insight take the place of certaintywhat Thoreau called tawny grammar. Following the owl, Simpson takes us to the underworld, also home to otherness, and to the Spanish concept of duende, the imminent presence of death in life. In the work of other artistsMatthias Grunewalds Isenheim Altarpiece, Elizabeth Bishops poetry and lesser known visual art, and the fiction of Nabokov, Borges and DostoevskySimpson ponders the location of the other in what is presented as subject. For in this impasse between what readers and viewers and even the subjects themselves see and cannot see resides the death in life, the wilderness on the edge of grammar. Along the way, Simpson sh

Author

Anne Simpson

Publisher

Kentville, N.S.: Gaspereau Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781554470716

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities