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Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida
[Paperback - 2004]
roo borson
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Category: Literature
Sub-category: Poetry
Publisher: Mcclelland & Stewart | ISBN: 9780771015915 | Pages: 96
Shipping Weight: .096 | Dimensions: 5.7 x .24 x 8.5 inches

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In Roo Borson’s new watershed collection, it is as though language were being taught to increase its powers of concentration, to hearken simultaneously to the fully impinged-upon senses, the reflecting mind with its griefs and yearnings, the heart with its burden of live memory. Always “the line bends as the river bends,” a quick ever-adjusting music that carries in its current those cherished, perishable, details of eye and ear, mid-life reflections on loss and home, the subtle shifts in season suddenly made strange and re-awakened. Recurrently, probingly, the line returns to the place of poetry in our lives. In the spirit of Basho’s famous journey to the far north, Borson’s “short journey” reminds us of the role of poetry in shaping and deepening our engagement with the world.

About the Author

Roo Borson has published eleven books of poems, including Short Journey Upriver Toward Ôishida (2004), winner of the Governor General’s Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Griffin Poetry Prize, and, most recently, Rain; road; an open boat (2012). She has also won awards for her essays, and, with Kim Maltman, writes collaboratively under the pen name Baziju. She lives in Toronto.

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