Why Are You So Sad?: Selected Poems of David W. McFadden. Selected and Introduced by Stuart Ross

Why Are You So Sad?: Selected Poems of David W. McFadden. Selected and Introduced by Stuart Ross image
ISBN-10:

1897178417

ISBN-13:

9781897178416

Author(s): McFadden, David
Edition: First Edition
Released: Jan 06, 2009
Publisher: Idiomatic
Format: Paperback, 328 pages
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Description:

His life in Canadian poetry has spanned five decades, and David W. McFadden is still going strong. This selection from his career to date brings back into print many of the greatest poems from nearly two dozen books. Chosen and introduced by fellow poet Stuart Ross, in full collaboration with the author, these poems reaffirm McFadden's status as one of Canada's most gratifying, ineffable, and necessary poets. Praise for David W. McFadden "The arcs of his imaginative flights illuminate whole arks for the soul, places you can enter, come in out of the rain, the storms, and claim as your own." — bpNichol "McFadden is a national treasure." — Brian Fawcett "Gypsy Guitar is everybody's favourite book of poetry." — George Bowering "Ideally, I'd like everyone to read it." — Rhonda Batchelor on Gypsy Guitar "McFadden is the poet laureate of the happy accident." — Bruce Grierson "I tore up all the other letters today tho there is one smart kid called Dave McFadden." — Jack Kerouac












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