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[ Large Cover ] [ Add to Cart ]	Through Darkling Air: The Poetry of Richard Outram Peter Sanger 2010 / Biography / $65.95 9781554470617 / Hardcover / 512 pp Through Darkling Air is an extensive study of the life and work of Canadian poet Richard Outram (1930–2005) in which Peter Sanger provides detailed analysis of Outram’s poetry, his influences and allusions, and of his collaboration with his wife, visual artist Barbara Howard. Through wide-reading of both the Western literary canon and of Outram’s own oeuvre, Sanger situates Outram in the literary tradition while introducing readers to Outram’s life, ideas and work. In the process, Sanger demonstrates a style of reading and discussing poetry which is uncommon in contemporary criticism, working methodically through Outram’s catalogue in order to arrive at a panoramic perspective that is at once telescopic and microscopic. As well as chronicling Outram’s accomplishments as a poet, mapping the many interconnections between his poems and their outward influences, Through Darkling Air celebrates Outram’s partnership with Barbara Howard, in particular their collaboration on the limited edition broadsides and handmade books issued from their Gauntlet Press imprint between 1960 and 2001. This book includes over 75 colour and black & white reproductions depicting Outram and Howard’s most noteworthy productions. It also includes many key poems from Outram’s more scarce collections reproduced in their entirety. Sanger first discovered Outram’s work in 1995: “My eye was drawn by the spare beauty of two chapbooks. When I read the books I found I did not always understand them. Sometimes it was as if I were coping with another language. But I had no trouble seeing and hearing the dance of Outram’s intelligence, his wit, his underdrifts of understated grief, his companion, his occasional prophetic anger directed at cant, opportunism and human predation, especially of the natural world. I knew immediately that I had encountered a poet whose work I would read for the rest of my life. Through Darkling Air is an attempt to honour a principle Outram shared and lived with his late wife, the painter, wood-engraver and book designer, Barbara Howard: love and imagination are synonymous and eternal, and the fool is wise who knows that much.”
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	Lightfield: The Photography of Thaddeus Holownia Peter Sanger 2018 / Photography, Essays, Canadian Art / $24.95 CAN / $24.95 US 9781554471775 / Trade paper
	Of Things Unknown: Critical Essays, 1978–2005 Peter Sanger 2015 / Literary Criticism / $34.95 CAN / $34.95 US 9781554471508 / Trade paper
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	Fireship: Early Poems, 1965–1991 Peter Sanger 2013 / Poetry / $25.95 CAN / $25.95 US 9781554471218 / Trade paper
	John Stokes’ Horse Peter Sanger 2012 / Poetry / $21.95 CAN / $21.95 US 9781554471133 / Trade paper
	The Stone Canoe: Two Lost Mi’kmaq Texts Peter Sanger, Elizabeth Paul, Alan Syliboy 2007 / Literary Criticism / $29.95 CAN / $29.95 US 9781554470433 / Trade paper
	Aiken Drum Peter Sanger 2006 / Poetry / $49.95 CAN / $49.95 US 9781554470150 / Fine
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	White Salt Mountain: Words in Time Peter Sanger 2005 / Books & reading / $59.95 CAN / $59.95 US 9781554470037 / Fine
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	Spar: Words in Place Peter Sanger 2002 / Books & reading / $49.95 CAN / $49.95 US 9781894031554 / Fine
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	Divisions of the Heart: Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Memory and Place Sandra Barry, Peter Sanger, Gwendolyn Davies 2001 / Essays / $32.95 CAN / $32.95 US 9781894031318 / Trade paper
	Kerf Peter Sanger 2001 / Poetry / $4.95 CAN / $4.95 US 9781894031530 / Pamphlet