Summary
Christopher Dewdney has been working on the The Natural History for two decades. He describes it as a book about high summer, though according to his natural history the fingers of summer reach in both directions of time: as early as March and as late as November. This is a sensual book, in love not only with foliage and creatures, weather and landscape, but also with the textures of language, the rhythm of English itself; not just Anglo Saxon and Germanic, but also its southern Latin heritag…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781550225136 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1550225138 |
| Author: | Christopher Dewdney |
| Publisher: | ECW Press,Canada |
| Imprint: | ECW Press,Canada |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 140 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2002 |
| Weight: | 181g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 10mm |
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About The Author
Christopher Dewdney
Christopher Dewdney has published twelve books of poetry as well as two books of popular non-fiction about culture and technology. He has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award three times and has won first prize in the CBC Literary Competition for poetry. His most recent book of poetry, Signal Fires, was published in the spring of 2000 by M&S. Christopher Dewdney lives in Toronto, where he teaches writing at York University and is a contributing culture and media panelist on TVO’s Studio Two.
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