Research Catalog

Title

Selected poems 1983-2020 / Steven Heighton ; edited by Karen Solie.

Author

Heighton, Steven, 1961-2022

Publication

• [Toronto] : Anansi, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

Solie, Karen, 1966-

Description

xiii, 209 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"This collection of new and previously published poems by Steven Heighton, author of the Governor General's Literary Award winner The Waking Comes Late, showcases a defining lyricist of his generation. Selected Poems 1983-2020 is Steven Heighton's seventh volume of poetry and the first since his Governor General's Literary Award-winning collection, The Waking Comes Late. Incorporating a grouping of previously unpublished poetry and a selection of key poems from his six previous acclaimed collections, this timely volume showcases a generational talent whose work has been described by critics as "exhilarating," "genuine," and "arrestingly beautiful." Heighton's debut collection, Stalin's Carnival, won the Gerald Lampert Award for Best First Book of Poetry in 1990. Subsequent books, which include bestselling novels, essays, and critical writings, confirmed Heighton as an exciting and important voice in Canadian letters. Heighton's poetry is recognised for its technical skill, musicality, its erudition, and its empathy and unvarnished emotion."--

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections (2021)

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subjects

• Poetry
• 1900-2099
• Canadian poetry > 21st century
• Canadian poetry > 20th century

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: STALIN'S CARNIVAL (1989) -- Early Poems, 1983-1986 -- Endurance -- Sailing, Gulf Islands -- A Perishable Art -- Restless -- High Jump -- Inuksuk -- The Machine Gunner -- The Burned Out Slope -- Invention -- Nightmare -- Ashes on the Earth: Selected Works of Josef Stalin -- 1. To the Moon -- 2. Elegy -- 3. On Reading Darwin -- 4. Ekaterina -- 6. Photograph of a Gutted Village, Georgia -- 7. Elegy in Early Winter -- 9. Two Elegies: A Son and a Colleague -- 11. "O Poet, the Georgians Have Prepared for You a Monument in Heaven" -- 12. Deathbed Dream -- Departures -- For Ping Hsin, in Golmud -- Sky Burial -- Fire Burial -- The Braiding -- Unfinished Buddha, Samed Island -- Ceremony for Ancestors, Koya San -- Nakunaru -- National Museum, Kyoto -- THE ECSTASY OF SKEPTICS (1994) -- Prologue -- Birthday -- Portrait of a Father -- Elegy as a Message Left on an Answering Machine -- Long Distance Every Sign -- An Elegy, Years After Sarah -- Conversation in a Gallery -- Slow Lightning -- In Heraclitus's City -- Rewriting the Dead -- Glosa -- The Bed -- Epitaph, Unfinished -- Hikers -- Psalm: For the Wind & the Shield Country -- A Psalm, on Second Thought -- Takayama -- Stone Mountain Elegy -- Were You to Die -- The Ecstasy of Skeptics -- THE ADDRESS BOOK (2004) -- Address Book -- The American Night Listens -- The Wood of Halfway Through -- Constellations -- 2001, An Elegy -- From a Higher Window -- Lost Waterfalls -- Drunk Judgement -- Maps of the Top of the World -- The Last Living Speaker of the Arondha Tongue Caught on Video a Few Hours Before Her Death -- English Cemetery, Gaspesie -- Gravesong -- Blackjack -- The Peace of High Places -- The Shadow Boxers -- The Mover -- Like a Man -- The Sleep at Sea -- PATIENT FRAME (2010) -- Home Movies, 8mm -- Selected Monsters -- Life! -- You Know Who You Are -- Constance & Her Stalkers -- Some Other Just Ones -- Things -- Outram Lake -- Two Tankas -- Jetlag -- Herself Revised -- The Last Reader -- On a Change of Address Card Sent a Few Weeks Before You Died -- Kid Brother, Black October -- Memo to a Self -- Run with Her -- Sky Burial, the Scholar -- A Monsoon Suicide -- Love Sonnet XVII -- World Enough -- THE WAKING COMES LATE (2016) -- Inspired by a Line / Paul Celan -- The Last Sturgeon -- Variations on a Cranial CAT Scan Profile After a Laryngeal Fracture -- After the CAT Scan -- Baffled in Ashdod, Blind in Gaza -- Leningrad -- The City -- Wheat Town Beer Leaguer, Good Snapshot, No Backhand -- A Cosmos -- !Evite que sits ninos...! -- Untitled -- Collision -- All Rivers Arrive -- The Weather Online -- Untaken Turns -- Song of the Graves -- Trakl, 1913 -- Coronach, Post-Kandahar -- Mikhalios -- In Order to Burn -- The Minor Chords -- June Cancellation -- The Waking Comes Late -- NEW POEMS -- Christmas Work Detail, Samos -- Easter on the Salish Sea -- Fake News -- Akin to a Lizard -- Better the Blues (Unplugged) -- Preveza -- Dream Fragment -- Night Skaters, Skeleton Park -- Familial -- Head of an Old Man with Curly Hair -- Listen -- Ship's Pilot Nagel -- Dawn, After the Spring Suicides -- Singing in the Grave -- Midnight Variations.

Call Number

JFD 21-3504

ISBN

• 9781487007379
• 148700737X

OCLC

1180971971

Author

Heighton, Steven, 1961-2022, author.

Title

Selected poems 1983-2020 / Steven Heighton ; edited by Karen Solie.

Publisher

[Toronto] : Anansi, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Additional Formats

Issued also in electronic format.

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Added Author

Solie, Karen, 1966- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Heighton, Steven, 1961- Poems. Selections (2021) Selected poems, 1983-2020. Toronto : Anansi, 2021 1487007388 9781487007386 (OCoLC)1196906675

Research Call Number

JFD 21-3504