Sheets of Glass

By Mark Henderson

For Mark Henderson, a gesture, a dream-fragment or a bit of resurgent memory can lead to a poem. In Sheets of Glass, a collection which won the Alftred G. Bailey Prize in 1990, he draws upon remnants of ancestral memory and recollections from his own childhood to create poems with delicate imagery and a strong, narrative line. Whether writing about his mother, "a small hunched figure/supporting the roof of the world," or his grandmother's hands, "delicate trellises/sprayed with ivory, violet-vined," he demonstrates a remarkable ability to discover the extraordinary in the everyday, the image in the object.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0864920954
• ISBN13: 9780864920959
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Length: 65 Pages