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    Letters From A Long Illness With The World: The D.H. Lawrence Poems
    Letters From A Long Illness With The World: The D.H. Lawrence Poems
    Letters From A Long Illness With The World: The D.H. Lawrence Poems
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    Letters From A Long Illness With The World: The D.H. Lawrence Poems

    By Barry Dempster

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    Tuning a fine ear to Lawrence’s letters from 1906 until his death in 1930, Barry Dempster’s poems uncover the man within the myth and give voice to Lawrence’s passionate mortality. Dempster’s act is one of imagination and homage, a kind of lyrical readership which traces the life-and-death line in a great writer’s life, with its constant illness and energy, a line “green as the vein of a young man’s desire.” In this book, Barry Dempster, acclaimed as a writer of short fiction and novels as well as poetry, extends his range and the genre of poetry itself.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrick Books
    Release dateSep 1, 1993
    ISBN9781926829548
    Letters From A Long Illness With The World: The D.H. Lawrence Poems
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    Barry Dempster

    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.

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      Letters From A Long Illness With The World - Barry Dempster

      Letters from a Long Illness with the World

      the D.H. Lawrence Poems

      Barry Dempster

      Letters from a Long Illness

      with the World

      … the D. H. Lawrence Poems

      Brick Books

      Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data

      Dempster, Barry, 1952-

         Letters from a long illness with the world:

      the D.H. Lawrence Poems

      Poems.

      ISBN  0-919626-64-5

      1. Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930 - Poetry.

      1. Title.

      PS8557.E4827L4   1993      c811’.54      C93-093958-1

      PR9199.E4827L4   1993

      Copyright © Barry Dempster, 1993.

      Second printing, June 2006.

      The support of the Canada Council and the Ontario

      Arts Council is gratefully acknowledged. The support

      of the Government of Ontario through the Ministry of

      Culture, Tourism, and Recreation is also gratefully

      acknowledged.

      Cover art ’Liberation’ by RH. Varley, collection of the

      Art Gallery of Ontario (Gift of John B. Ridley, 1977,

      and donated by the Ontario Heritage Foundation, 1988)

      and the RH. Varley Estate/Mrs. D. McKay. Cover

      design is by Karen Ruttan.

      Typeset in Trump Mediaeval.

      The stock is acid-free Zephyr Antique laid.

      Printed and bound by The Coach House Printing Co.

      Brick Books

      431 Boler Road, Box 20081

      London, Ontario

      N6K 4G6

      www.brickbooks.ca

      For Karen

      Contents

      Green as the Vein in a Young Man’s Desire …

      Eastwood 1906

      Eastwood 1908

      Croydon 1909

      Somewhere … London 1910

      Croydon 1911

      London 1912

      Italy 1914

      Italy 1914 #2

      Hampstead 1915

      Omens … Cornwall 1916

      Cornwall 1916

      Derby 1918

      Capri 1920

      Arabian Sea 1922

      Feeling the Heat … Ceylon 1922

      Australia 1922

      From the Kangaroo Tree … Australia 1922

      San Francisco 1922

      Possibilities … America 1923

      The Painted Life … New Mexico 1923

      Oaxaca, Mexico 1924

      Dei Monte Ranch, Questa, New Mexico 1924

      Chasing Your Shadow… Mexico 1925

      Dei Monte Ranch, Questa, New Mexico 1925

      Dei Monte Ranch, Questa, New Mexico 1925 #2

      Afterlife … the Atlantic Ocean 1925

      The Christmas Eve Abyss … Florence 1927

      Gstaad 1928

      Mallorca 1929

      Breathless … the Sanatorium 1930

      Last Lights … Vence 1930

      A Million Words … Vence 1930

      When I Ciose My Eyes … Vence, March 1930

      Books Are

      Lawrence

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