The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand: The Poetry of M. Travis Lane
()
About this ebook
The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand: The Poetry of M. Travis Lane is a collection of thirty-five of her best poems, selected with an introduction by Jeanette Lynes. An environmentalist, feminist, and peace activist, M. Travis Lane is known for witty and meticulously crafted poems that explore the elusive nature of “home” in both historical and present contexts and reflect on the identity of the woman poet and what it means to be a writer. Lane’s poems exhibit impressive range and variety—long poems, short lyrics, serial poems, poems inspired by visual art—and are richly attentive to the landscapes, both urban and wild, of her New Brunswick home. They voice a sense of urgency with respect to ecological crises and war; her poetic attention fixes unwaveringly on the smallest pebble on the coast of Fundy but is equally attuned to global patterns of destructive domination.
In her introduction “As Opportunity for Grace, This Life May Serve”, editor Jeanette Lynes discusses how Lane’s poetry integrates an ecopoetic vision with explorations of the artist’s task of mapping her world. Lane’s afterword reinforces her sense of the poet’s project as a form of mystical play, a search for patterns in the “unified disunities” of all things.
M. Travis Lane
M. Travis Lane is the author of sixteen books of poetry and has been widely published in literary journals as a poet and critic. She has won the Atlantic Poetry Prize, the New Brunswick Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Bliss Carman Award. Her most recent book, Crossover, was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for poetry in 2015. She is a founding member, as well as Honorary President, of the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick. She also is a Life Member of the League of Canadian Poets, where she has participated vociferously in its feminist caucus. M. Travis Lane lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Read more from M. Travis Lane
The All Nighter’s Radio Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Witch of the Inner Wood: Collected Long Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand
Titles in the series (28)
Guthrie Clothing: The Poetry of Phil Hall, a Selected Collage Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCertain Details: The Poetry of Nelson Ball Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDeportment: The Poetry of Alice Burdick Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSpace Between Her Lips: The Poetry of Margaret Christakos Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSôhkêyihta: The Poetry of Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSonosyntactics: Selected and New Poetry of Paul Dutton Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChamber Music: The Poetry of Jan Zwicky Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBarking & Biting: The Poetry of Sina Queyras Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlues and Bliss: The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The False Laws of Narrative: The Poetry of Fred Wah Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSocial Poesis: The Poetry of Rachel Zolf Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLeaving the Shade of the Middle Ground: The Poetry of F.R. Scott Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Crisp Day Closing on My Hand: The Poetry of M. Travis Lane Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVerse and Worse: Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989-2009 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAll These Roads: The Poetry of Louis Dudek Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Different Species of Breathing: The Poetry of Sue Goyette Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Order in Which We Do Things: The Poetry of Tom Wayman Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFrom Room to Room: The Poetry of Eli Mandel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBy Word of Mouth: The Poetry of Dennis Cooley Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Desire Never Leaves: The Poetry of Tim Lilburn Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Possible Trust: The Poetry of Ronna Bloom Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEarthly Pages: The Poetry of Don Domanski Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Before the First Word: The Poetry of Lorna Crozier Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Field Marks: The Poetry of Don McKay Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rivering: The Poetry of Daphne Marlatt Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPlease, No More Poetry: The Poetry of derek beaulieu Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPlans Deranged by Time: The Poetry of George Fetherling Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChildren of the Outer Dark: The Poetry of Christopher Dewdney Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Related ebooks
Rivering: The Poetry of Daphne Marlatt Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Essential Travis Lane Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSecret Leopard: New and Selected Poems 1974-2005 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRobert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Barking & Biting: The Poetry of Sina Queyras Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Rosanna Warren's "Daylights" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCarol Coffee Reposa: New and Selected Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDreamwork Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Shape of the Journey: New & Collected Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century (1918) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lost and Certain of It Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBefore the First Word: The Poetry of Lorna Crozier Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chamber Music: The Poetry of Jan Zwicky Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Poetess Counts to 100 and Bows Out: Selected Poems by Ana Enriqueta Terán Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Desire Never Leaves: The Poetry of Tim Lilburn Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Possible Trust: The Poetry of Ronna Bloom Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsElizabethan Poetry: An Anthology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDifficult Weather Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCorrupted into Song: The Complete Poems of Alvin Feinman Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Self-Completing Tree Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMargaret Laurence: The Making of a Writer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Essential John Reibetanz Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhy the Lyrical Ballads?: The Background, Writing, and Character of Wordsworth's 1798 Lyrical Ballads Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMargaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTalk Poetry: Poems and Interviews with Nine American Poets Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Sound: New & Selected Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEssential Ruth Stone Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSkyrocket Dive Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMississippi Verse: An Anthology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Poetry For You
Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad of Homer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Twenty love poems and a song of despair Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prophet Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Inward Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Selected Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love Her Wild: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Collection Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beowulf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLeaves of Grass: 1855 Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beyond Thoughts: An Exploration Of Who We Are Beyond Our Minds Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Way Forward Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Weary Blues Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (ReadOn Classics) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gilgamesh: A New English Version Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pillow Thoughts II: Healing the Heart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand
0 ratings0 reviews