Common Place Ecstasies: Poems

By Wendy McGrath

With sublime poetic insight, Wendy McGrath takes us on a tour of everyday objects and events that celebrates what many of us take for granted. A truck-stop diner is obliquely referenced to the subject of Vincent van Gogh's The Night Cafe. A refracted glimpse of a typical suburban couple is transmuted into a modern-day version of a wedding portrait by Jan van Eyck. Old brown boots lined with newspapers sum up the hard life of a construction worker. Tupperware is no ordinary plastic in scattered snapshots from a single day in the life of an outwardly ordinary family.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888784112
• ISBN13: 9780888784117
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.2" x 11.8"