Marianne Bluger: 3 books
by Marianne Bluger
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1987
Meditative, meticulously-crafted poems that nonetheless take seriously the idea that all poetry is a form of praise, and that "the habit of sadness just isn’t enough/ … / because it isn't joy." Gathering Wild is Marianne Bluger's second book.
by Marianne Bluger
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1984
Marianne Bluger knows what it is to be at sea; oceans of sad and beautiful possibilities wash her poems. And she feels the warmth and fixity of anchorage in home. Tender by nature but tough at need, her language deftly negotiates a course between these poles.
by Marianne Bluger
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1992
Winner of the 1993 Archibald Lampman Award and shortlisted for the 1992 Pat Lowther Award Summer Grass follows Marianne Bluger's previous Brick books, On Nights Like This (1984) and Gathering Wild (1988). The two movements of Summer Grass, between them, comprehend the darknesses of "County Dire" and...