Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects

Catherine Graham
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Shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award ? League of Canadian Poets Shortlisted for the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry In her fifth collection of poetry, Catherine Graham breaks into rich, new territory. Long recognized for the easy grace and strange beauty of her poems about grief and remembrance, in Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects , she turns her thoughts toward poems of tribute and exaltation. Paying homage to the work of two inspiring poets?P. K. Page, whose long life and celebrated career have made her a legend in her native Canada, and Dorothy Molloy, an Irish poet whose life was tragically cut short just as readers were discovering the true scope of her talents?Graham has crafted an ocean-spanning book of deep feeling, good humour and hard-won solace.
Genres: Poetry
60 Pages

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