Summer in Furnished Rooms
by Marc Plourde
Price: $20.00
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Publication Date: April 6, 2024
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Synopsis:
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Summer in Furnished Rooms reflects on the passage of time and breathes new life into people and places that disappeared long ago. From Gregorio Fuentes, skipper on Ernest Hemingway’s boat and inspiration for The Old Man and the Sea, to toucans and paradise tanagers undulating in waves of colour on a Colombian wildlife preserve, to the old red-brick Empire Theatre on Ogilvy Street and the Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night, showing there in ’64, Marc Plourde invokes a life’s experience in resonant narrative verse.
ISBN: 9781770867444
Format: Trade Paperback w/ Flaps
Size: 5.5" x 8.5"
Subjects:
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POE011000 POETRY / Canadian
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POE023040 POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places
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POE000000 POETRY / General
Reviews
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“Marc Plourde is an honest poet whose poems, often homages to the Montreal of the 60s and 70s, deserve to be taken seriously.”
— Norm Sibum, author of Gardens of the Interregnum
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“‘What to say of memory’s insistence,’ Plourde asks, ‘its rush of days / filling the cracks in each moment with traces of the past?’ Even as he cannot answer his own question, he leaves the reader with a deep appreciation for why he must ask it.”
— Literary Review of Canada