Bonfires Bruce McIvor BISAC Subject(s): POLITICAL SCIENCE /

BISAC Subject(s): POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship

Equal to the strength and wisdom of the memoir

constant reminder that "other people do this better

This is the book of a man who has died more than once and who carries with him knowledge of the point where being’s blaze touches nothingness

Bonfires Bruce McIvor BISAC Subject(s): POLITICAL SCIENCE /Description Bringing Canadian poetry back to the achingly honest tradition of John Newlove and Bronwen Wallace, Chris Banks eschews linguistic showmanship, sketching in deft strokes the foreignness of things familiar. Framed within the rural landscape of southwestern Ontario and Al Purdy's "country north of Belleville," Banks turns his pen to modern life and the small domestic urgencies that arise from it. This is a landscape we are all familiar with