 [ Large Image ] | Vis à Vis: Field notes on Poetry & Wilderness Don McKay 2001 / Books & reading / $49.95 9781894031516 / Fine / 112 pp Edition is out of print In Vis à Vis, Don McKay charts a vision of poetics that keeps its feet on the ground and its eyes on the horizon. As one of Canada’s leading poets, McKay has long been known for his passionate engagement with his natural surroundings. This book collects three essays on this relationship, together with new and previously published poems that further demonstrate these ideas. Using bushtits, baler twine, Heidegger and Levinas, McKay sets out to explore some of the almost unspeakable concepts driving the use of language particular to poets, and the arguably skewed relationship human beings have with their natural surroundings. In a book the Globe & Mail calls “stylishly constructed” and “impeccably casual,” one of Canada’s best-loved writers offers his own sense of poetics. Finalist for the 2002 Governor General’s Award for Nonfiction. Review: “Sinuously crafted and stylishly constructed, Vis à Vis contains a vibrant trio of McKay’s impeccably casual essays, as well as a generous selection of both new and previously published poems.” Judith Fitzgerald, Globe and Mail Is a special edition of the book: 9781894031509 | Other Books by this Author |  | All New Animal Acts: Essays, Stretchers, Poems Don McKay 2020 / Literary Criticism, Canadian Poetry / $24.95 CAN 9781554472154 / Trade paper / 144 pp |  | The Shell of the Tortoise: Four Essays & an Assemblage Don McKay 2011 / Books & reading / $25.95 CAN 9781554471089 / Trade paper / 160 pp |  | The Muskwa Assemblage Don McKay 2009 / Poetry / $49.95 CAN 9781554470655 / Trade paper / 48 pp |  | Deactivated West 100 Don McKay 2005 / Books & reading / $59.95 CAN 9781554470099 / Fine / 128 pp |  | Deactivated West 100 Don McKay 2005 / Books & reading / $25.95 CAN 9781554470082 / Trade paper / 128 pp |  | Vis à Vis: Field notes on Poetry & Wilderness Don McKay 2001 / Books & reading / $14.95 CAN 9781894031509 / Trade paper / 112 pp |
![[ Large Image ]](image.php?AID=9781894031516_a.jpg){kind=link}