Folding the wilderness within
By: by Joan Shillington
Publisher: Frontenac House Poetry
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781927823118
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Canadian Poetry; Poetry; Canadian poetry (English); Women authors
Description: Folding the Wilderness Within explores the many different and compelling landscapes within all of us. From a child's hand holding cards as if they were webbed to Machu Picchu where stones fit so tight not even a hair can pass, Joan Shillington weaves reality and imagination, language and form together to form a poetic story. --publisher.
Notes: Poems.

Issued also in electronic format.
Table of contents: title: Currents; title: The fifties; title: Evinrude; title: Elna; title: Summer job 1935; title: The hunter; title: The cottage; title: Poaching; title: Family dinners; title: Portrait of my mother in her kitchen 1942; title: Brownie meeting; title: A brown owl and her daughter walk home in minus thirty celsius; title: Ice break-up; title: The neighbour speaks from beyond; title: Dawn; title: Wild horses; title: Canning peaches; title: Roll up the rim; title: A bush pilot executes his last shutdown; title: Cessna; title: Co-ordinates; title: Childhood westerns; title: My father prepares himself for the task ahead; title: Piano lessons; title: Bringing in the cattle; title: Au coeur vaillant rein d'impossible: nothing is impossible for a willing heart; title: Innocence for amm; title: On visiting the desert after learning of a friend's lapse into a coma; title: Machu Picchu; title: Learning to drive; title: The carcass; title: Nightmare; title: Dreams; title: Seasons; title: Midnight run; title: My father as Tsar 1946; title: Waiting; title: There are no stories in my family; title: The night my mother died ...; title: Summoning; title: My mother's sister; title: White chalk on slate; title: The rosary; title: The gospel; title: Seba Beach; title: There are no stories in my famliy; title: The forgetting; title: Beginning the end; title: On her eighty-eighth birthday, my mother asks me to iron; title: Meditation on wasps; title: Adbuction; title: Remembrance Day; title: The last afternoon of my mother's life; title: Meanook cemetery; title: May first; title: After the funeral; title: Ordinary; title: A measure of taste; title: Monopoly; title: Lady luck; title: He is driving ...; title: Caterpillars.