Overview

Only now is the scope and breadth of McGauley's work in poetry visible in published form ... Recarving the Chrysoprase Bowl is a work of poems in sequence, each with its morning that is neither poised in apartness, nor self-entangled in the verbal undergrowth of the others. The sequence is cumulative, building up its images, landscapes, names, sites, and settings, one at a time. Though there is no plot to follow, there is a dense fabric of reiterated language-actions and verbal patterns to take in and move through, whether one reads deeply, for motifs and allusions, or for the surface effects in the which the poetry has its profoundest life: its rhythms, sound-textures, derangements of syntax, and acoustic concretions. - from the Afterword.

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""These aren't poems to be read as an archive. They are dense meditative scripts to nail to a wall and to contemplate for a week, or a month, until each is both a landscape and a body. Then the next one comes."" --- Harold Rhenish, The British Columbia Review of Books

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Tom McGauley, poet, historian, editor, archivist, custodial worker and union officer, studied under Robin Blaser and Ralph Maud and lived for many years in Castlegar and Burnaby, while travelling widely in many countries and climes, especially in India.

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