The Essential Elizabeth Brewster
Subtitle: poems
By: edited by Ingrid Ruthig
Edition: First edition
Series: The Essential Poets Series -- vol. 22
Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill
Published: May, 2021
Place of publication: Erin, Ontario
Language: eng
Format: Trade paperback
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780889848788; 9780889848863
Copyright date: 2021
Description: Despite an impressive post-secondary education and a body of work that spans more than twenty books and seven decades, Elizabeth Brewster’s quiet humility in the face of “all that tradition” of the western literary canon belies her contribution to the nation’s cultural history. Perhaps fittingly, her poems demonstrate a sense of isolation, a quest for selfhood, a desire to understand and to be understood. Often conversational in tone, the directness in her poems is supported by a deliberate economy of language and freedom from the restrictions of traditional form.
Notes: Includes a foreword and a brief biography written by editor Ingrid Ruthig, as well as a bibliography.