Bonfires Bruce McIvor There’s a wisdom in these

There’s a wisdom in these pages

BISAC Subject(s): POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship

constant reminder that "other people do this better

to sing off-key into the screams of semi-trailers and cars

Bonfires Bruce McIvor There’s a wisdom in theseDescription Bringing Canadian poetry back to the achingly honest tradition of John Newlove and Bronwen Wallace, Chris Banks eschews linguistic showmanship, sketching in deft strokes the foreignness of things familiar. Framed within the rural landscape of southwestern Ontario and Al Purdy's "country north of Belleville," Banks turns his pen to modern life and the small domestic urgencies that arise from it. This is a landscape we are all familiar with