A Skeptic in Springtime

Brent MacLaine

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A Skeptic in Springtime

  Author:   Brent MacLaine    
  Publisher:  Island Studies Press

A Skeptic in Springtime wrestles with uncertainty and aging, hurricanes, gravity, and particle theory. Amid all the unknowns, “Still, the white-throated sparrow cries I’m here, here, here, here.” Although rooted in the PEI landscape where he grew up, MacLaine ranges farther afield to Assyrian myth in “Killing a Lassamu,” to the Song Dynasty in “Su Dongpo Makes Ink,” and to art in “Claude Monet in the Waiting Room.” The book closes with an elegy to the late John Smith, a close friend and the former poet laureate of PEI. Combining keen observation of the natural world and the human condition, the poems in this collection contain, as Smith wrote, ” a universe which has leapt from nothing into something.”
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ISBN associated with this title: 9781988692722
Item MC0324
PublisherIsland Studies Press
PublisherIsland Studies Press
Published on February 23 2024
Language ENG
Pages 96
Format Paperback
Dimensions9(in) x 6(in)
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Brent MacLaine
Brent MacLaine is Professor Emeritus and a 3M Teaching Fellow in the Department of English at UPEI. He grew up in the rural community of Rice Point, PEI, to which he returned after teaching at universities in Vancouver, China, and Singapore. In addition to numerous academic articles on modern literature, he has published four volumes of poetry. His awards for poetry include a League of Canadian Poets prize, the Prince Edward Island Book Award, and the Atlantic Poetry Prize.

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