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    A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth
    A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth
    A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth
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    A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth

    By Stephanie Bolster

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    Shortlisted for the 2012 Pat Lowther Memorial Award

    An ambivalent zoo-tour, an open-eyed meander through a landscape of made and contained things.

    A Page from The Wonders of Life on Earth is a book with a coherent vision of nature -- constructed or framed, both in the present and in the recent past -- through zoos, aviaries, formal gardens, menageries, and books like the Time-Life one named in the title. Informed by the author’s grand tour of these zoos and gardens, these poems provide a strong lens for considering the many paradoxes of inter-species relations; they open up the possibility of honest, unsentimental elegy. The book is also a model of what might be called investigative poetry, taking the poet’s combination of perceptual acuity, craft, music and sensibility into these richly troubled places (prisons of, monuments to, museums for the lost natural world) where "arcades sell postcards of old photographs of the arcades," and where questions of what it means to be human, to be animal, to be other and to be art are tangibly in the air. This is Bolster's best work.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrick Books
    Release dateSep 15, 2011
    ISBN9781771310819
    A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth
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    Stephanie Bolster

    Stephanie Bolster's first book, White Stone: The Alice Poems, won the Governor General’'s and the Gerald Lampert Awards in 1998. She has published two other collections, Two Bowls of Milk, which won the Archibald Lampman Award, and Pavilion. Raised in Burnaby, B.C., she now teaches at Concordia University and lives in Pointe-Claire, Quebec.

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