The Time of Icicles

By Mary Dalton

A collection of lyric pieces, The Time of Icicles is anchored in the author's experience of Newfoundland, but these poems are of a continent, a century. An underlying preoccupation of the volume is with states of struggle-of people, cultures, vegetation, of language itself. Moving from moods of sly irony to haunting sadness, this music of dissolution in one sense sabotages its own cry, for it affirms, in its wide-ranging allusiveness and its suppleness of line, the joy of wordmusic. Out of the wreck of contemporary existence what can be salvaged? An undaunted looking, a saying, a singing. Singing become act.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550810391
• ISBN13: 9781550810394
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: Breakwater Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"