The Essential Elizabeth Brewster Poetry Here is a twenty-first century

Here is a twenty-first century riposte to Lord Byron’s Don Juan

imagination

while this new edition offers a beautiful text to be enjoyed by those who love and wonder at the talent of one of Canada’s greatest poets

sends fragments of memory ricocheting into sensuous poems that arrange themselves

The Essential Elizabeth Brewster Poetry Here is a twenty-first centuryIn The Essential Elizabeth Brewster, questioning, conversational poetry melds the private and the collective, exploring the challenges of constructing selfhood and voicing historically silenced female perspectives. Despite an impressive post secondary education and a body of work that spans more than twenty books and seven decades, Elizabeth Brewsters quiet humility in the face of all that tradition of the Western literary canon belies her