
Abraham
- Publisher
- Brick Books
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1987
- Category
- Canadian
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781771312769
- Publish Date
- Sep 1987
- List Price
- $11.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780919626331
- Publish Date
- Jan 1987
- List Price
- $9.95
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Description
In these passionate poems, this long poem, there is a story (there are stories) which a reader mines out of a landscape of language moulded under great pressure and eloquent of the stresses that formed it. This is non-representational work of great concentration and beauty.
"The skill and intense ardor of the mind at work ... is delightful. The least one can learn from poetry that makes sweet music of the intelligence is that we can still measure, have measure." -- Fred Wah, Books in Canada
About the author
Colin Browne
Writer, filmmaker, teacher, critic and poet Colin Browne is the author of Abraham (Brick Books, 1987) and the critically acclaimed book of poetry Ground Water (Talonbooks, 2002), which was nominated for a Governor General’s Poetry Award and a BC Book Prize in 2003. Most recently he completed a documentary portrait of jazz musician Linton Garner, Linton Garner: I Never Said Goodbye, which was screened at the Vancouver Film Festival and aired on CBC’s Opening Night series.