The Quiet in Me

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Poems

By Patrick Lane

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The Quiet in Me is a posthumous collection of poetry by Patrick Lane, compiled and edited by Lorna Crozier. The poems explore the intricate connections between life and death, nature and the body, capturing moments of quiet reflection amidst the natural world. Lane's work meditates on existence with sharp clarity—depicting scenes from lakes, rivers, and the passage of birds, revealing a profound sense of intimacy and vulnerability. This collection invites readers to reconnect with themselves through vivid sensory experience, embracing paradox and the perpetual unfolding of life.
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This collection will resonate with readers who appreciate contemporary poetry, especially those drawn to nature, introspection, and lyrical explorations of life and mortality. Ideal for fans of Canadian poetry and anyone seeking poetic meditations steeped in natural wisdom and emotional depth.

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A posthumous collection of poetry from Patrick Lane, compiled and edited by Lorna Crozier.

In this final collection, Patrick Lane cultivates the quiet of living in a body amongst so many other bodies—the trout in the lake, geese arriving with the wind, a raccoon fishing in a river—ultimately revealing a tangled web of life and a speaker who sees both beauty and pain brimming around him.

Together, the poems in The Quiet in Me are a clear-eyed and sharp meditation on existing in a world pulsing between life and death, death and life. When the body is "a museum for what's gone" and a heart is "the sound of the wind seething," there is no answer but to learn the language of quiet; the language of an earth unfolding itself perpetually in the dawn: "the song of the falling water and wild birds."

With incredible poetic precision, this collection is an offering—to come back to yourself and to lose yourself in sight, sound and sense. Playing in paradoxes—"empty marrow bones with their strings of red ants"—these poems cultivate dualisms: intimacy and realism, vulnerability and the roughness of youth, a scar that is a father's teaching, a blade that is a sigh.

From one of Canada's most lyric writers comes a book steeped in the wisdom of the natural world. Told by an eye that never ceases to observe and a heart that is willing to make itself known—to invite others into its warmth and wilderness—this collection transposes leaf to leaf, stone to stone, reminding us that water will always return to water and so will we.

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"Lyric art of the highest order. The voice, relieved of everything nonessential, speaks with effortless assurance of last, and first, things." – Jan Zwicky "Lane is a poet more of the individual, hard-hitting poem; like physical blows, he wields his pieces like small threats of intense beauty." – Globe and Mail "...likely to be remembered as a man who fashioned some of the most gorgeously beautiful poems ever written in this country." – Guy Vanderhaeghe, author of The Last Crossing and The Englishman's Boy

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781550179811

Publisher: Harbour Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 December 2022

Country: Canada

Imprint: Harbour Publishing

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Introduction by Lorna Crozier

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 6.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 64

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Patrick Lane Poetry

About the Author

Patrick Lane, considered by most writers and critics to be one of Canada's finest poets, was born in 1939 in Nelson, BC. He grew up in the Kootenay and Okanagan regions of the BC Interior, primarily in Vernon. He came to Vancouver and co-founded a small press, Very Stone House, with bill bissett and Seymour Mayne. He then drifted extensively throughout North and South America. He worked at a variety of jobs, from labourer to industrial accountant, but much of his life was spent as a poet. He was also the father of five children and grandfather of nine. He won nearly every literary prize in Canada, from the Governor General's Literary Award to the Canadian Authors Association Award to the Dorothy Livesay Prize. In 2014, he became an Officer of the Order of Canada, an honour that recognizes a lifetime of achievement and merit of a high degree. His poetry and fiction have been widely anthologized and translated into many languages. His more recent books include Witness: Selected Poems 1962-2010 (Harbour Publishing, 2010), The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane (Harbour Publishing, 2011), Washita (Harbour Publishing, 2014; shortlisted for the 2015 Governor General's Literary Award), Deep River Night (McClelland & Stewart, 2018) and a posthumous collection, The Quiet in Me (Harbour Publishing, 2022). Lane spent the later part of his life in Victoria, BC, with his wife, the poet Lorna Crozier. He died in 2019. Lorna Crozier has received numerous awards, including the Governor General's Award, for her fifteen books of poetry, which include The Blue Hour of the Day, What the Living Won't Let Go, Everything Arrives at the Light, and Inventing the Hawk. She is also the author of the memoir Small Beneath the Sky and the editor of several anthologies. She lives in Saanich, British Columbia.