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Watching a Man Break a Dog's Backexplores the question of how to live in a natural landscape that offers beauty while being consumed by industry, and in an economy that offers material benefits while denying dignity, meaning and a voice to many in order to satisfy the outsized appetites of the few.

Acri de coeurfrom a poet who has long celebrated the voices of working people, the collection also grapples withwhy anyone, in this era so profoundly lacking in grace, might want to make poemsor any kind of art. Butthe keen sense of justice that drives the collection is tempered by the poet's reluctance to take himself too seriously: Centuries without the benefit / of my presence / have to be made up for / by my words.

The poet brings the perspective of age to our current troubled existence, with the reminder that as a society and as individuals we've faced perilous times before, and that our shared mortality links us more than circumstances and politics divide us.

Watching a Man Break a Dog’s Back: Poems for a

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      Publisher: Harbour Publishing
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 27/08/2020
      ISBN13: 9781550179125, 978-1550179125
      ISBN10: 1550179128

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Watching a Man Break a Dog's Backexplores the question of how to live in a natural landscape that offers beauty while being consumed by industry, and in an economy that offers material benefits while denying dignity, meaning and a voice to many in order to satisfy the outsized appetites of the few.

      Acri de coeurfrom a poet who has long celebrated the voices of working people, the collection also grapples withwhy anyone, in this era so profoundly lacking in grace, might want to make poemsor any kind of art. Butthe keen sense of justice that drives the collection is tempered by the poet's reluctance to take himself too seriously: Centuries without the benefit / of my presence / have to be made up for / by my words.

      The poet brings the perspective of age to our current troubled existence, with the reminder that as a society and as individuals we've faced perilous times before, and that our shared mortality links us more than circumstances and politics divide us.

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