Bonfires

by Chris Banks

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 - grocery...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889711968
• ISBN13: 9780889711969
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Nightwood Editions
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 7.9"