Ladder to the Moon
- Publisher
- Brick Books
- Initial publish date
- Oct 1988
- Subjects
- Canadian
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781771312059
- Publish Date
- Oct 1988
- List Price
- $11.99
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Description
In his fifth book of poetry, Douglas Burnet Smith tunes his eye and ear closely to the world, conscious of those points where the everyday blossoms into fierce magic. The title sequence is a deftly-rendered homage to the work of Georgia O’Keeffe.
About the author
Douglas Burnet Smith (1949) has served as President of the League of Canadian Poets and of the Public Lending Right Commission of Canada. He teaches at St. Francis Xavier University. Smith was nominated for the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 1993 for Voices from a Farther Room (1992) and for the Atlantic Poetry Prize for his most recent collection, The Killed (2000).