Poems from the Burnt Woods

By: Boyd Chubbs

ISBN:	1895387507
Page Info:	64 - 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 - paper
Publisher:	Creative Publishers

A season flies by and through these thirsty branches, these speaking figures in fog or night, the hieroglyphics from combustions that once owned this acreage and blocked the sun and moon. A season flies and the earth repairs, the green venturing further and deeper each turn, each drinking, breathing, triumphant turn. ...

(from ``Love from the Burntwoods'') "A land is ravaged by fire and seeks each season to repair itself. From it rise berry bushes, shrubs, but other, more tender, growth may not revitalize. This volume of poems comes from such a place, a landscape that is physical, psychic, mythic. In it are angels and ravens, messengers and witnesses, walkers of barrens, lovers and seekers, children and musicians. From the coast of Labrador to the streets of Dublin, these poems explore the connections between internal and external landscapes, and those moments in time when connections are as visible as shifts of light. Chubbs' landscapes are both familiar and magical, and through them runs a voice that connects the stories of their inhabitants ; past, present and future."

From L'Anse Au Clair, Labrador, Boyd Chubbs is a poet, visual artist and musician. Poems from the Burntwoods follows a body of work including Journeys Into Hiding (1983), co-authored with Stephen Goudie and published under the title Effusions, The Figure on the Headland, poems broadcast on CBC Stereo (1984), and Spanish in the Harbour, a recording of original guitar compositions (1991). His recent volumes of poetry are Lines From the Migrant Coast (1989) and Through Solomon's Lane (1991).