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Book What the Stones Remember

Download or read book What the Stones Remember written by Patrick Lane and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2006-12-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exquisitely written memoir, poet Patrick Lane describes his raw and tender emergence at age sixty from a lifetime of alcohol and drug addiction. He spent the first year of his sobriety close to home, tending his garden, where he cast his mind back over his life, searching for the memories he'd tried to drown in vodka. Lane has gardened for as long as he can remember, and his garden's life has become inseparable from his own. A new bloom on a plant, a skirmish among the birds, the way a tree bends in the wind, and the slow, measured change of seasons invariably bring to his mind an episode from his eventful past. What the Stones Remember is the emerging chronicle of Lane's attempt to face those memories, as well as his new self—to rediscover his life. In this powerful and beautifully written book, Lane offers readers an unflinching and unsentimental account of coming to one's senses in the presence of nature.

Book There Is A Season

Download or read book There Is A Season written by Patrick Lane and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2005-02-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Believed by many to be one of the finest poets of his generation, Patrick Lane is also a passionate gardener. He lives on Vancouver Island, a place of uncommon beauty, where the climate is mild, the air is soft, and the growing season lasts nearly all year long. Lane has gardened for as long as he can remember, and sees his garden’s life as intertwined with his own. And when he gave up drinking, after years of addiction, he found solace and healing in tending to his yard. In this exquisitely written memoir, he relates stories of his hard early life in the context of the landscape he’s created. As he observes the seasonal changes, a plant or a bird or the way a tree bends in the wind brings to mind an episode from his storied past. Lane writes evocative descriptions of the animals, birds, insects, and plants that are his garden, and of the relationship he has to them all. Accompany Lane as he wanders his garden, where botanical “madeleines” release in him a flood of memory.

Book The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane

Download or read book The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane written by Patrick Lane and published by Harbour Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents the accumulated richness of fifty years' work by one of Canada's most important poets, Patrick Lane. Here, the reader can see how he developed from an engaged recorder of hard experience--even traumatic violence--into a master poet whose meditations on nature, human frailty, and love allow him to balance the world's suffering with stunning moments of transcendent beauty and a vision of peace. He expresses himself in a variety of forms and tones--in turn despairing and rejoicing, tender and brutal, imagistic and elegiac, deeply personal and universal. As Nicholas Bradley observes, in an afterword written for this volume, "The journey that Lane's works trace has been long and hard, but, as this collection demonstrates, his poems achieve both understanding and grace." Edited by two distinguished scholars of Canadian literature, this long-overdue book gathers a lifetime of work. Ranging from Letters from a Savage Mind (1966) to Witness (2010), this collection contains more than four hundred poems (many revised for this publication) and demonstrates the breadth of Lane's achievement.

Book Red Dog  Red Dog

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick Lane
  • Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
  • Release : 2008-11-19
  • ISBN : 1551992078
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book Red Dog Red Dog written by Patrick Lane and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Bestseller and a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year One of the most powerful, gripping works of fiction to come out of Canada, Red Dog, Red Dog is Patrick Lane’s virtuoso debut novel. An epic novel of unrequited dreams and forestalled lives, Red Dog, Red Dog is set in the mid-1950s, in a small town in the interior of B.C. in the unnamed Okanagan Valley. The novel focuses on the Stark family, centring on brothers Eddy and Tom, who are bound together by family loyalty and inarticulate love. There is Tom and Eddy’s father, Elmer Stark, a violent man with a troubled past, and Lillian, who married as a girl to escape life on the farm with her widowed mother, and now retreats into her own isolation. Unrepentant, bitter, older brother Eddy speeds freely along, his desperate path fuelled by drugs and weapons, while Tom, a loner, attempts to conceal their secrets and protect what remains of the family. Eventually, an unspeakable crime causes him to come face to face with something traumatic that has lain hidden in him since he was a boy. Narrated in part by one of the dead infant daughters Elmer has buried, the story unfolds gradually, as it weaves in family stories that reach back to the depression days and the harsh life of settlers in the 1880s West. This is also a novel about a small community of people, about complicated loyalties, about betrayals and shifts of power. Filled with moments of harrowing violence and breathtaking description, of shattering truths and deep humanity, Red Dog, Red Dog is about the legacies of the past and the possibilities of forgiveness and redemption. With this astonishing novel, one of Canada’s best poets propels himself into the forefront of our finest novelists.

Book Patrick Lane and His Works

Download or read book Patrick Lane and His Works written by George Woodcock and published by Canadian Author Studies. This book was released on 1985 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following in the footsteps of his brother, Patrick Lane wrote poetry to escape a life of labour and helped found the small, west coast press Very Stone House in the mid-sixties. This analysis of his work, written by George Woodcock, explores how his peripatetic nature influenced his work, his interest in the everyday life, and his status as an outlaw poet.

Book Deep River Night

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick Lane
  • Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
  • Release : 2018-02-13
  • ISBN : 0771048181
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Deep River Night written by Patrick Lane and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Cormac McCarthy, Russell Banks, and Annie Proulx, the much-anticipated new novel by the bestselling author of Red Dog, Red Dog is set over the course of 48 hours in a remote sawmill community where violence, complicity, and inaction run deep. World War Two vet Art Kenning is the alcoholic first-aid man in an isolated sawmill village in the interior of B.C., where he dreads the sound of the five whistles that summon him to the mill floor whenever a worker is hurt. Traumatized by an incident in Holland, when he stood by while members of his unit committed a horrific act, he loses himself in drink, and in memories of the love affair he had with a woman in wartime Paris. But the sad comfort of his self-imposed detachment is shattered when one of the most powerful men at the mill arrives at his door late one evening to ask for his help. What unfolds over the course of that night and following day will force Art to confront acts of evil, both in the present and the past, as well as the tragic consequences of his own inaction. .Alternating with Art's story are the stories of Joel, a teenaged runaway who owes his life to Art, Wang Po, the mill's cook and a survivor of the Rape of Nanjing, Alice, a young Indigenous girl sold from a residential school, and, Cliff, a Metis man with a hidden past. These lives, and more, intertwine to reveal a complex, morally ambiguous community where the undercurrents of violence and complicity are never far from the surface. Writing with exquisite precision and emotional force, Patrick Lane gives us a novel whose darkness is fractured by moments of light. Deep River Night is a riveting story about the burden of bearing witness to a terrible crime

Book The Bare Plum of Winter Rain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick Lane
  • Publisher : Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub.
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9781550172263
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Bare Plum of Winter Rain written by Patrick Lane and published by Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection from one of Canada's finest poets.

Book The Quiet in Me

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick Lane
  • Publisher : Harbour Publishing
  • Release : 2022-04-02
  • ISBN : 9781550179811
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book The Quiet in Me written by Patrick Lane and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-02 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A posthumous collection of poetry from Patrick Lane, compiled and edited by Lorna Crozier. In this final collection, Patrick Lane cultivates the quiet of living in a body amongst so many other bodies--the trout in the lake, geese arriving with the wind, a raccoon fishing in a river--ultimately revealing a tangled web of life and a speaker who sees both beauty and pain brimming around him. Together, the poems in The Quiet in Me are a clear-eyed and sharp meditation on existing in a world pulsing between life and death, death and life. When the body is "a museum for what's gone" and a heart is "the sound of the wind seething," there is no answer but to learn the language of quiet; the language of an earth unfolding itself perpetually in the dawn: "the song of the falling water and wild birds." With incredible poetic precision, this collection is an offering--to come back to yourself and to lose yourself in sight, sound and sense. Playing in paradoxes--"empty marrow bones with their strings of red ants"--these poems cultivate dualisms: intimacy and realism, vulnerability and the roughness of youth, a scar that is a father's teaching, a blade that is a sigh. From one of Canada's most lyric writers comes a book steeped in the wisdom of the natural world. Told by an eye that never ceases to observe and a heart that is willing to make itself known--to invite others into its warmth and wilderness--this collection transposes leaf to leaf, stone to stone, reminding us that water will always return to water and so will we.

Book Through the Garden

Download or read book Through the Garden written by Lorna Crozier and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Globe and Mail 100 Best Book Finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction A deeply affecting portrait of a long partnership and a clear-eyed account of the impact of a serious illness, writing as consolation, and the enduring significance of poetry from one of Canada's most celebrated voices. When Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane met at a poetry workshop in 1976, they had no idea that they would go on to write more than forty books between them, balancing their careers with their devotion to each other, and to their beloved cats, for decades. Then, in January 2017, their life together changed unexpectedly when Patrick became seriously ill with no diagnosis and no effective treatment plan. The illness devastated them both. During this time, Lorna turned to her writing as a way of making sense of her grief and for consolation. She revisited her poems, tracing her own path as a poet along with the evolution of her relationship with Patrick. The result is an intimate and intensely moving memoir about the difficulties and joys of creating a life with someone and the risks and immense rewards of partnership. At once a spirited account of the past and a poignant reckoning with the present, it is, above all, an extraordinary and unforgettable love story. Told with unflinching honesty and fierce tenderness, Through the Garden is a candid, clear-eyed portrait of a long partnership and an acknowledgement, a tribute, and a gift.

Book Mortal Remains

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick Lane
  • Publisher : Exile Editions, Ltd.
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9781550965414
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book Mortal Remains written by Patrick Lane and published by Exile Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many truths in life we know of but fail to acknowledge because they cause too much pain. It is these dark places that Patrick Lane, one of Canada's most important writers, tackles in Mortal Remains. These poems will take readers deep into their own psyches and force them to examine issues close to the bone - if not close to the heart. This book is a must-read for poetry fans unfamiliar with Lane's haunting works.

Book Alden Nowlan Selected Poems

Download or read book Alden Nowlan Selected Poems written by Alden Nowlan and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best of beloved poet Alden Nowlan's explicitly honest, direct, and insightful poetry. Now featuring an introduction by Susan Musgrave. Alden Nowlan, one of Canada's finest and most influential poets, died in 1983. He leaves a rich legacy of poetry that is accessible yet profound, and that speaks to people's lives with wry observation and keen insight. Alden Nowlan Selected Poems is for Nowlan fans and new readers alike. The poems included in this volume reflect the recurring themes that illuminate Nowlan's work, and it is truly the best of his poetry. Above all, this volume is a tribute to a poet who deserves to be treasured for all time.

Book A Land Remembered

Download or read book A Land Remembered written by Patrick D. Smith and published by Pineapple PressInc. This book was released on 2001 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the story of the MacIvey family of Florida from 1858 to 1968.

Book Not Dead Yet

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick Fanning
  • Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
  • Release : 2009-01-02
  • ISBN : 9781608824847
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book Not Dead Yet written by Patrick Fanning and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2009-01-02 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congratulations! After years of drudgery in the respectable working world, you've earned the right to unlimited free time-a luxury also enjoyed by the homeless, the incarcerated, and bimbo heiresses everywhere. With all this newfound time for meditation, medication, and reflection, you might've already made a few profound discoveries. Perhaps you've learned of your spouse's plan to drive you crazy, or just how bad daytime TV can be. If there's more to retirement, author Patrick Fanning sets out to find it in this irreverent guide to life in the slow lane.

Book A Time to Keep Silence

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick Leigh Fermor
  • Publisher : John Murray
  • Release : 2011-12-08
  • ISBN : 1848547021
  • Pages : 65 pages

Download or read book A Time to Keep Silence written by Patrick Leigh Fermor and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the French Abbey of St Wandrille to the abandoned and awesome Rock Monasteries of Cappadocia in Turkey, the celebrated travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor studies the rigorous contemplative lives of the monks and the timeless beauty of their monastic surroundings. In his occasional retreats, the peaceful solitude and the calm enchantment of the monasteries was passed on as a kind of 'supernatural windfall' which A Time to Keep Silence so effortlessly records.

Book Unwrapped

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katie Lane
  • Publisher : Forever
  • Release : 2015-09-29
  • ISBN : 1455551872
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Unwrapped written by Katie Lane and published by Forever. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GOOD THINGS COME IN SEXY PACKAGES . . . Jacqueline Maguire has a problem tying the knot. After fleeing the altar (again), the runaway bride drives off with no particular destination in mind. Which is how Jac finds herself stranded in a snowstorm with a hot, hard-bodied stranger who treats her to the naughtiest night of her life . . . but come morning, he's long gone. Contractor Patrick McPherson is deeply committed to his bachelor lifestyle. No strings, no rings. As the Christmas season approaches, however, Patrick still can't quite forget his curvalicious one-night stand. Then Jac shows up unexpectedly, and all holiday hell breaks loose. Because this year, Patrick is getting the biggest Christmas surprise of his life . . .

Book Poems  New   Selected

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick Lane
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1978
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book Poems New Selected written by Patrick Lane and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1978 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LANE CREATES STARK IMAGES IN THESE ACCOUNTS OF HIS TRAVELS AND EXPERIENCES. WINNER OF THE 1978 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD.

Book Selected Poems

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick Lane
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Selected Poems written by Patrick Lane and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Canada's most distinguished poets and winner of the Governor General's Award in 1979 for Poems New and Selected, Patrick Lane deserves much admiration for his remarkable poetic achievement. This new volume of his verse traces the evolution of his work and includes both poetry from his previously published collections and a number of new poems.