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Hard Light: Brick Books Classics 5
New light on Michael Crummey's classic depiction of Newfoundland and Labrador's past.
On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the fifth of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This edition of Hard Light features a new Introduction by Lisa Moore, a new Afterword by the author and a new cover and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst.
In Hard Light, first published in 1998, Crummey retells and reimagines his father's and others' stories of outport Newfoundland and the Labrador fishery. These deeply felt poems are rooted in the places where "human desire comes up against rock" (John Steffler).
I have a fair trial on the fishing line now,
being three summers out from home, two summers on
the French Shore, four down on the Labrador,
and three trips this year to the Banks of Newfoundland,
and this is what I have learned to be the price of fish
- "'The price of fish.' (September, 1887)"
"In these stories and poems, an intimate, bright world flares up, glowing in the darkness of recent history, full-blown and vivid." - Lisa Moore, from the Introduction
Book Details
- Publisher: Brick Books
- Publish Date: Sep 15th, 2015
- Pages: 112
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.40in - 0.60in - 0.70lb
- EAN: 9781771313469
- Categories: • Canadian• Subjects & Themes - General
About the Author
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Praise for this book
."..He is a brilliant stylist: never obscure and rarely pedantic...Crummey takes us on outer and inner journeys from which we return with an understanding of eternal forces too powerful to conquer but always necessary to challenge."--R.G. Moyles, Canadian Book Review Annual
."..The anonymous voices of Hard Light speak to us as distinct individuals. What comes through again and again in the foreground of their short tales is their determination and awareness... a concise, poignant social history of Newfoundland."--John Steffler, Labour/Le Travail
"[Hard Light] accumulates a power that honours its dead with noble straightforwardness."--Bill Robertson, Saskatoon StarPhoenix
" ... He is a brilliant stylist: never obscure and rarely pedantic ... Crummey takes us on outer and inner journeys from which we return with an understanding of eternal forces too powerful to conquer but always necessary to challenge."--R.G. Moyles, Canadian Book Review Annual
" ... The anonymous voices of Hard Light speak to us as distinct individuals. What comes through again and again in the foreground of their short tales is their determination and awareness ... a concise, poignant social history of Newfoundland."--John Steffler, Labour/Le Travail
"[Hard Light] accumulates a power that honours its dead with noble straightforwardness."--Bill Robertson, Saskatoon StarPhoenix