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.”

tagged: Brent MacLaine, Island Studies Press, Paperback

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ISBN associated with this title:	9781988692722
Item	MC0324
Publisher	Island Studies Press
Publisher	Island Studies Press
Published on	February 23 2024
Language	ENG
Pages	96
Format	Paperback
Dimensions	9(in) x 6(in)
Shipping weight	0(g)
Status	ACTIVE TITLE

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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