Fast Forward
Subtitle: New Saskatchewan Poets
Contributors: Barbara Klar (Editor); Paul Wilson (Editor)
Publisher: Hagios Press
Published: April 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780973972757
Subjects: American - General; Canadian; Poetry
Description: "It's been a generation since the publication of the last anthology of new Saskatchewan poets. Almost overnight, it seems, another group of poets has surfaced in the community and grabbed the attention of the literary journals. It is time to showcase them, to gather their voices and celebrate a changing consciousness." "Poetry is by definition innovation; each of these poets has turned a unique form of experience into art. These poets are looking up from the prairies toward possibility and a broad worldview with subjects as diverse as ancestry, love, birth, death, history, nature, and growing old. None of these poems has appeared in print before. And, as the anthology evolved, we decided to solicit essays from several of the poets as a way of complementing the poems and exploring the thinking behind them. Fast Forward affirms that not only is poetry alive and well in Saskatchewan, but there is a lively and cogent discussion happening here on poetics and craft. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.