Unarmoured excursions
By: Richard Therrien
Publisher: Gaspereau Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Kentville, Nova Scotia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
ISBN-13: 9781554471904
Description: "The eight prose pieces that make up Unarmoured Excursions are imaginative riffs bordering on formal essays, each willfully puncturing the barrier between what we experience and what we can conceive. While descriptive details seem to root his prose in real places and situations, Therrien's mischievous turn of mind veers off the path of documentary into pure exploration. Whether he's writing the magical realism of a dream, the overheard dialogue of teens in a food court, or the reflections of a man left caring for a vulnerable, nonverbal stranger, Therrien heads for the uncertainty of open ground, where the transcendent and the imminent--the dreaming and the waking worlds--might be seen to mingle" -- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Essays.
Table of contents: title: I. The seven sleepers; title: II. Birds in flight; title: Yellow; title: The avenue; title: Waking upstream; title: III. Unarmoured excursions; title: IV. Requiem; title: V. Collapsing time: thirteen random investigations into the nature of compassion.