Death has no dominion, but poetry has dominion over all. Although psychologists have nuanced definitions for each term, they are all essentially forms of. For anyone who has urged another title in the canon of Friesen's award-winning work, here is a collection worthy of accolade. The silent treatment goes by many names: shunning, social isolation, stonewalling, ghosting. With infinite candor and sensitivity, Friesen celebrates the lives of idols and iconoclasts, wives and widows, farmers and freeloaders. Intermingling prose poems and traditional free verse, Friesen both narrates and sings the stories of absence and forgetting, tales of lingering memory and fleeting love. With wisdom and beauty and invention, Friesen walks us through the graveyard of human kind where a symphony of voices still conduct the lives left behind long after they depart flesh for spirit. While those who loved them keen softly between his lines, Friesen invokes their loss as one remembers a cool breath on the back of the neck, a faint shadow on a headstone, a watermark on the bedstand. Buy The Shunning Paperback Book By: Beverly Lewis from as low as 2.99. Patrick Friesen's newest collection Carrying the Shadow is a haunting ode to the lives we have felt too briefly, known only in passing and yearn to hold still. The selected edition of this book is not available to buy right now. He lives in Vancouver where he teaches writing. The Shunning (ISBN: 9780764204630) In the quiet Amish community of Hickory Hollow. He has also written for stage, radio, TV and film. mary at main was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. A Broken Bowl was short-listed for the Governor General's Award.
Patrick Friesen is the author of Blasphemer's Wheel, winner of the Manitoba Book of the Year Award and runner-up for the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award.
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