How We All Swiftly: The First Six Books
Don Coles
[poetry]
How We All Swiftly: The First Six Books brings together the best of Don Coles's early work, from the long-unavailable poems in Sometimes All Over (1975), Anniversaries (1979), and The Prinzhorn Collection (1982) to much-acclaimed book-length poems K in Love (1987) and Little Bird (1991). With an incisive introduction by critic and professor emeritus W.J. Keith, this overdue reissue of Coles's career-defining collections—collections whose austere, tender, insouciant, sad-lit clarity reinvented Canadian poetry—will allow readers to glimpse the evolution and shaping of a major career.
How We All Swiftly will be the first volume in a celebratory two-part overview of Don Coles's literary writings. A Dropped Glove in Regent Street, a selection of Coles's best essays, and reviews and autobiographical articles, will be released by Véhicule Press in Fall 2006.
Don Coles is the author of ten books of poetry and the novel Doctor Bloom's Story. He won the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 1993 for Forests of the Medieval World and the Trillium prize in 2000 for Kurgan. Formerly a professor at York University, Don Coles lives in Toronto.
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