{"product_id":"winter-in-halifax-paperback","title":"Winter in Halifax - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas DeFreitas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinter in Halifax\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e are dreamy and conditional, achingly touching, and funny. Like the \"suitcase full of tatterdemalion language\" which the speaker in the title poem carries with him into the desolate pre-dawn city, along with his (grim) determination to celebrate, this collection is full of catalogues, surprising juxtapositions, vocabularies, rhythms, and rhymes. DeFreitas is a master and lover of language. And so the voice of these poems is alive and courageous, whether speaking of pain or of joy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHilary Sallick\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eAsking the Form\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinter in Halifax\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e fizzes with spring-its narrator, \"light-hearted as a florist in February,\" nurses faith and hope. DeFreitas preserves details of the everyday-coffee, the kitchen light, snow on gravestones, St. Agnes' bells-in lines that dance with rhythm and sing with rhyme. On display is precisely what the speaker in \"Lingua Franca\" wishes for: \"[a] lithe and limber idiom...sassy brassy palaver.\" Most moving are the poems of relationships: a boy at the beach with his father, a letter to a friend, a mother and son sharing memories. Tender and effervescent, this open-hearted work will surely hearten its readers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Buchinger\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ee i n f ü h l u n g\/in feeling\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinter in Halifax, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThomas DeFreitas frequently manages to be both exuberant and elegiac within the same poem. He celebrates the haunts of his native Boston; he offers homage to Our Lady of Cambridge, a \"spare-change Madonna.\" His skillful use of language and form unerringly serve what's being closely observed or recalled. It's clear that the poets he celebrates here-Lorca, Hart Crane, Roethke-have become deeply part of his own sensibility. Each heartfelt salute to a cherished someone or to a special season or to a lost soul shimmers with a sense of inexorable change and loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCathie Desjardins\u003c\/b\u003e, Poet Laureate Emerita of Arlington, MA; author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuddha in the Garden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 48\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.12 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42707658145855,"sku":"9781639800421","price":26.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/4f834f681b55cba7106b0a520331a5c6.webp?v=1765044923","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/winter-in-halifax-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}