“…these Essays of Light poems are marvels, effortlessly luminous, so tender in compassion, so trenchant in elegance. Even the prose poems, a form normally recalcitrant to poetic coloratura, reach us as uninterrupted Grace. David Stones is so deft a poet that even the white space between stanzas seems to sing and then echo melodically once a page is turned.” – George Elliott Clarke, Author of Canticles III (MMXXIII) (Guernica Editions) & Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada (2016/17) About Essays of Light Poetry Collection On the heels of his bestselling poetry collection, sfumato, celebrated Canadian poet, David Stones, once again transforms the generic turnings of a familiar world into those indelible gems that speak hard truths and make us face both the folly and the tumult of what life is. From coyotes visiting a graveside service, to migrants challenging the high seas to find refuge, to youthful hockey games on frozen ponds, and the palpable silence of students visiting an Anne Frank museum exhibit, Stones’s variegated human quilt is at once mischievous, tragically beautiful, and most engaging. A multiple-award winning poet, acclaimed for the performance of his work, Stones delivers another tour de force collection destined to find its place in the canon of fine Canadian poetry. Like this:Like Loading...
