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    Summer Grass
    Summer Grass
    Summer Grass
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    Summer Grass

    By Marianne Bluger

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    Winner of the 1993 Archibald Lampman Award and shortlisted for the 1992 Pat Lowther Award

    Summer Grass follows Marianne Bluger's previous Brick books, On Nights Like This (1984) and Gathering Wild (1988). The two movements of Summer Grass, between them, comprehend the darknesses of "County Dire" and the depths of contentment in love and in home among the other (animate and inanimate) members of earth. Not literature, these poems are "uttered deeds." They probe "midnight gravities" with a light-suffused language born of faith.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrick Books
    Release dateNov 15, 1992
    ISBN9781771311021
    Summer Grass
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    Marianne Bluger

    Marianne Bluger was a Canadian poet from Ottawa, Ontario.

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