Forty-One Pages: On Poetry, Language, and Wilderness

Reflections on our salvation in a world of environmental decline

In this series of elegant and wide-ranging meditations on language, wilderness, poetry, and technocracy, John Steffler takes us on a guided tour of one poet's mental workshop. His focus is vividly personal, shaped by his interests and experience, and at the same time universal. What is it to be human? Steffler is not afraid to be provocative, but he is also compassionately alert to moral, political, and cultural complexity. This is a book that will convince you that poetry can indeed make a great deal happen.

Author: John Steffler
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Published: 03/16/2019
Pages: 136
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780889775879

About the Author

John Steffler is the author of six books of poetry, including The Grey Islands, That Night We Were Ravenous, and Lookout, which was shorlisted for the Griffin Prize. His novel The Afterlife of George Cartwright won the Smithbooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. From 2006 to 2009 he was Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada. John lives in Winnipeg, MB.