Concrete and Wild Carrot
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In Margaret Avison's new poems, little pleasures are bound up with larger ones. Her slightest subjects -- beloved Toronto parks with their population of oaks, firs, squirrels, dogs, kids, even ants, and the minutest sighs of her contemporary urban soundscape -- all have their being within an immense composition that calls and hauls us to a largeness, a category-breaking "always unthinkable" beyond.
Margaret Avison
Margaret Avison was born in Ontario. She attended public school in Western Canada, high school and university in Toronto. She spent eight months in Chicago in 1956-57, on a Guggenheim Foundation Grant. She has worked in libraries, publishing houses, universities, archives, and missions, was writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario in 1972-73. In 1985 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. She was awarded three honorary degrees and two Governor General’s Awards for Poetry (for Winter Sun and No Time). In 2003 she was the winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize and the CAA Jack Chalmers Poetry Award and received a Globe 100 citation for her book Concrete and Wild Carrot.
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Concrete and Wild Carrot - Margaret Avison
CONCRETE AND WILD CARROT
MARGARET AVISON
Other Works by Margaret Avison
Winter Sun, 1960
The Dumbfounding, 1966
sunblue, 1978
Winter Sun/The Dumbfounding, 1982
No Time, 1989
Selected Poems, 1991
Not Yet But Still, 1997
A Kind of Perseverance, 1993 (Pascal Lectures at the
University of Waterloo)
Collaborations:
The Plough and the Pen, 1963
Acta Sanctorum, 1966
CONCRETE AND WILD CARROT
MARGARET AVISON
National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Avison, Margaret, 1918-
Concrete and wild carrot / Margaret Avison
Poems.
ISBN 1-894078-24-1
I. Title
PS8501.V5C65 2002 C811’.54 C2002-902871-X
PR9199.3.A92C65 2002
Copyright©Margaret Avison 2002.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for
the Arts, the Government of Canada through the Book
Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP),
and the Ontario Arts Council for their support of our
publishing program.
The cover photograph was taken by Paul Best.
The photograph of the author was taken by Joan Eichner.
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Contents
Pacing the Turn of the Year
Present from Ted
Towards the Next Change
Prairie Poem: for George Grant
Dividing Goods
Ramsden
Balancing Out
The Crux
Ambivalence
Relating
Responses
Audrey: a Posthumous Portrait
Reversing a Crater
Third Hand, First Hand
Notes from Dr. Carson’s Exposition of I John 5
He Was There / He Was Here
Remembering Gordon G. Nanos
Other Oceans
The Whole Story
Cycle of Community
Seriously?
Dead Ends
Prospecting
Lament for Byways
Rising Dust
Two
Leading Questions
Uncircular
The Endangerer
To Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Four Words
On a Maundy Thursday Walk
In our little nests
Contextualizing, or Neither Here nor There
Alternative to Riots but All Citizens Must Play
Notes
Acknowledgements
Biography
Pacing the Turn of the Year
A sudden season
has changed our world.
Everybody is out
to see, or bask, or
with their kind to exuberate.
Everything is new.
Trees that were only sticks
into the overcast
yesterday, are
soft and full of catkins
like newly shampooed children being
readied for the party.
Slender young saplings
shine, all the tender leaves
distinct, notes of music
atremble for a chance musician
strolling by to hear and
play — for