dear Hermes... (Robert Kroetsch)

by Michelle Smith

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By turns joyous and adventurous, melancholy and nostalgic, Michelle Smith's debut collection of poems showcases a wide-ranging fascination with places, people, and story. Smith's limpid and humane handling of an array of themes, emotions, and styles-her Norwegian ancestry, her Canadian Prairie heritage, the significance of family, the fragility of memory, world travel, ekphrasis, myth, and more-exemplifies the lyric self on a poetic grand tour, or pilgrimage, to meet the world. Framed by imaginative travelogues addressed to Greek gods, dear Hermes... offers readers an escape and an entrance-out of time and into the poet's luminous experience. Readers who appreciate clear lyric and fleet voicing will relish Smith's poetry.
  • ISBN10 088864597X
  • ISBN13 9780888645975
  • Publish Date 20 February 2012
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint University of Alberta Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 88
  • Language English