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SANGER, Peter Aiken Drum
Gaspereau Press 2006 1554470145 / 9781554470143 Y Trade Paper NEW Y
In this, his sixth collection of poetry, Peter Sanger brings his archaeologist's eye, along with classical and local iconography, to his encounters with domestic implements, local ecology, cultural relics and landmarks. The poems in this collection achieve a delicate balance between the grounded and the ethereal.
"The tutelary spirit in Aiken Drum is an archetypal, mercurial shape-shifter whose name gives the collection its title," says Sanger. "Originally, the character Aiken Drum appears in an old Scottish nursery rhyme of uncertain origin. Here, he also appears in the shape of the infamous 'mysterious stranger' who called himself during a career of thievery and fantastical escapades Smith or More or Newman or – Henry Moon. His story is told in the poem sequence 'Abatos,' but his presence, in various forms (including at one point, the philosopher Wittgenstein), infiltrates many poems throughout the collection."
"There was a man lived in the moon, lived
in the moon, lived in the moon,
There was a man lived in the moon
And his name was Aiken Drum.
And he played upon a ladle, a ladle, a ladle,
And he played upon a ladle
And his name was Aiken Drum
Scottish Traditional
Before Aiken Drum, his most recent work was White Salt Mountain, exploring the scope of words in time, and is a follow-up to Spar: Words in Place (2002), a collection of essays based on life in rural Nova Scotia. Sanger has been the poetry editor of The Antigonish Review since 1985.
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19.95 CDN
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HOLOWNIA, Thaddeus SANGER, Peter Arborealis
Anchorage Press 2005 1895488265 / 9781895488265 Y Hardcover NEW N
(Jolicure, NB: Anchorage Press, 2005). Limited Edition. Pp. 80. With thirty-one full-size stochastic duotone reproductions of the original 7 x 17 inch contact prints by photographer Thaddeaus Holownia, accompanied by a collection of thirty poems by Peter Sanger. Oblong folio (10 x 19 inches), grey paper-covered boards, brown cloth spine, black titles to spine, in illustrated paper-covered slipcase.
'For a number of years, the photographer Thaddeus Holownia has journeyed to Gros Morne National Park and along Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula putting together the body of work presented in Arborealis. As response to Holownia's photographs, Peter Sanger has drawn upon his own experience of living, working and travelling in Newfoundland, particularly on the Northern Peninsula, to compose a suite of thirty poems.
Both the photographs and poems re-create the natural, historical, cultural and geographical aspects of Newfoundland's north-west coast by two independent but interlinked perspectives of imagination. Together, they are counterpointed meditations, a synthesis in the great tradition of combined pictorial, literary, and printing arts." -from the publisher.
The photographs are from 7 x 7 inch negatives made with a Folmer & Schwing Banquet Camera (1926) and a Wisner Technical Field Camera (1999). This edition is limited to 500 copies.
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150.00 CDN
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