The Canadian poet Miriam Waddington has already been introduced to English readers with the publication of `Dream Telescope' (1972), and her poems have appeared in several English magazines. `Driving Home' brings together for the first time her work of thirty years - poems selected from her six previously published books as well as a group of new poems. Using prairie geography, Jewish folklore, and Canadian history, as well as her experience as a social worker and teacher, she seeks to explore the inner sources of many kinds of love - love of country, love between men and women, parents and children, people and landscape. She has consistently searched for, and struggled towards, the discovery of her essential identity as an artist, a woman, and a Canadian in a changing world. Through her rootlessness she identifies many roots, and through her lyrical images of Biblical legends, pagan fairy tales, and local landscapes, she bridges the inner world of the psyche and the outer world of reality. Within the boundaries of her created world she reveals the possibility of love, survival and the new.  Her previous poetry collections are `Green World' (1945), `The Second Silence' (1955), `The Season's Lovers' (1958), `The Glass Trumpet' (1966), `Call Them Canadians' (1968), `Say Yes' (1969), and `Dream Telescope' (1972). She is also the author of a study of the Montreal poet A.M. Klein (1970).

Driving home: poems new and selected

Waddington, Miriam

Oxford University Press

Miriam Waddington's career as a writer began in the 1940s. In the years since, she has produced a body of work that has made her one of the most widely read poets in Canada. Her ninth collection-the first since Driving Home in 1972-is about light and silence, about places, and, most importantly, about solitude without loneliness, space without emptiness, death without fear. Her verbal discipline, imagery, warmth, toughness, and humour; her multicultural sympathies; her optimism and honesty-all are qualities that make her poetry fresh and intimate.

The Price of Gold

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Oxford University Press, Canada

In a career that spans fifty years, the Canadian poet Miriam Waddington has published eleven volumes of poetry, embracing a wide range of subjects, from womanhood and justice, to the city and the universe. Summing up not only a life's work but also the life itself, this richly imagined and important body of work will, in the words of reviewer D.G. Jones, "enliven the dark."

Collected Poems

History & Criticism

In this lively collection of essays--some appearing in print for the first time, others reprinted for a new generation of readers--Waddington has created a unique portrait of the Canadian literary world that is part memoir, part reflection. Whether describing a Jewish literary salon in Montreal in the 1930's or, in the book's title essay, remembering the fledging literary life of Toronto in the 1940's, Waddington brings to life moments in the history of Canadian letters. With a keen eye for detail, and a passion for social justice, she recalls her childhood on the prairies and her growing sense of herself as a writer, a woman, and a Jew in patriarchal wasp culture. The subjects that interest her range widely, from women writers to Yiddish writing to the Canadian literary tradition, and such diverse writers as Stephen Leacock, Moshe Nadir, John Sutherland, Anais Nin, Simone de Beauvoir, V.S. Naipul. Apartment 7 also includes two out-of-print essays from Waddington's esteemed study of the poet A.M.Klein. This collection will be essential reading not only for all admirers of Miriam Waddington's humane poetry but for anyone interested in the literary history of Canada.

Apartment Seven

Essays & Correspondence

The Last Landscape is Miriam Waddington's first book of new poems in a decade. It includes poems about the place of women in our society, the tragedy of war, the comedy of human affairs, memory and isolation, aging and death. Yet it is not a book without hope, for Waddington's voice, at once compassionate and ironic, refuses to accept the defeats it sees as the price of being alive. Sometimes angry, sometimes elegiac, but always observant and just, Waddington writes with characteristic lyricism and intuitive vision. The prophetic darkness of some of her new poems may startle readers familiar with Waddington's work, but there is no loss of joy and humour. Included in this book is her almost ghost story 'Klara and Lilo', a mysterious account of two women known, in passing, at a Mexican resort. Their lives, like the poems in The Last Landscape, will haunt readers long after they have finished reading this powerful collection.

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