The Reinvention of the Human Hand
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Document Type
Book
Description
Paul Vermeersch’s new poems give a present-day voice to primitive song, and restore to us a dawn-time severity that cuts through modern evasions. They go beyond sophistication to reveal the passionate and suffering animal within. The Reinvention of the Human Hand is a poetry of the human body’s experience, of a primal being that struggles to assert itself, or perhaps just survive, in a world of metals, plastics, electronics. Here is the most far-reaching work yet by the acclaimed author of Burn, The Fat Kid, and Between the Walls. Vermeersch has always gone in search of understanding. Now his discoveries speak of a human world exhausted by its divorce from an animal past, terrified of retreating into early places it never truly left, astonished by the forgotten possibilities disclosed there.
ISBN
9780771087431
Publication Date
3-16-2010
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Number of Pages
88
Keywords
poems, poetry
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Creative Writing | Poetry
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences (FHASS)
Awards
A finalist for the Trillium Book Award.
Copyright
© McClelland & Stewart
SOURCE Citation
Vermeersch, Paul, "The Reinvention of the Human Hand" (2010). Books & Chapters. 5.
https://source.sheridancollege.ca/fhass_books/5
Original Citation
Vermeersch, P. (2010). The reinvention of the human hand. McClelland & Stewart.