77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin

77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin
Author(s): Thomas King

Timely, important, mischievous, powerful: in a word, exceptional

Seventy-seven poems intended as a eulogy for what we have squandered, a reprimand for all we have allowed, a suggestion for what might still be salvaged, a poetic quarrel with our intolerant and greedy selves, a reflection on mortality and longing, as well as a long-running conversation with the mythological currents that flow throughout North America.

Review(s):
“King revels in . . . juxtaposition, putting beauty beside terror and horror next to humour, often with great skill.”

Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for Poetry, Nelson Ball Prize

ISBN:  9781443459440