Things That Keep and Do Not Change

by Musgrave, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780771066764
• ISBN10: 0771066767
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

Summary

InThings that Keep and Do Not Change, Musgrave dances on the threshold of ecstasy, madness, rage, and desolation, and goes further, to life beyond the moment of extremity. Yet even as we are caught in the undertow of betrayal and loss, we are buoyed up by a terrible sanity that reveals humour and beauty in the shoals of loneliness and pain. By turns dark, playful, and edgy, these poems are informed by a mature intelligence. This is vintage Musgrave.

Author Biography

<b>Susan Musgrave</b> was raised on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. She has published over twenty books, including books of poetry, children’s books, novels, and collections of humorous essays. She has been shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award and for the Stephen Leacock Award. In 1996, she won the CBC/Tilden Canadian Literary Award for Poetry, and the Vicky Metcalf Short Story Editor's Award. She was Chair of the Writers' Union of Canada in 1997-98. In the spring of 1999, she and her husband, Stephen Reid, were the subject of the documentary "The Poet and The Bandit," produced for the CBC-TV program <i>Life and Times</i>.<br><br>Susan Musgrave lives in Sidney, British Columbia.