{"product_id":"the-cottage-builders-letter-isbn-9780771066726","title":"The Cottage Builder's Letter","description":"With \u003ci\u003eThe Cottage Builder’s Letter\u003c\/i\u003e, gifted poet George Murray comes into his own with a new book of sumptuous lyrical narratives. He constructs his remarkable stories-in-song around challenges in the lives of people claiming their right to exist in a world seemingly set against them. Highly crafted, generous in tone, and always with a moral authority, \u003ci\u003eThe Cottage Builder’s Letter\u003c\/i\u003e tackles the larger historical issues of Murray’s own Irish background by creating heroes of well-storied, fictional characters such as a nameless Muskoka cottage builder, the singular Seamus Me Fein (Seamus myself), and his parents and his grandparents, vaulting their hard luck and hard work into poetry driven by bardic rhythms. Murray re-invigorates traditional rhythms the same way he surprises us by creating fresh figures from old tales. Whether his subject is a modern-day Damocles, a drowning man waiting for Noah, an Egyptian on the Red Sea, or the Cassandra myth updated to contemporary urban scenes, Murray’s poetry bursts with a protean vigour.“[Murray] demonstrates that a firm controlling metaphor in a poem need not obviate the free play of imagination.…Highly impressive.…”\u003cbr\u003e–\u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Murray\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two acclaimed books of poetry, \u003ci\u003eCarousel\u003c\/i\u003e (2000) and \u003ci\u003eThe Cottage Builder’s Letter\u003c\/i\u003e (2001). His work has appeared in many newspapers and magazines in Canada, and in the U.S. and Australia, including \u003ci\u003eDescant\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The Iowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Jacket\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Mid-American Review\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Nerve\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Painted Bride Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Slope\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also an editor at \u003ci\u003eMaisonneuve Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. Raised in rural Ontario, he now lives in New York City.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelected poems from his most recent book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Hunter, \u003c\/i\u003e have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e and in \u003ci\u003e100\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePoets Against War\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300885483749,"sku":"NP9780771066726","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771066726.jpg?v=1767738845","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-cottage-builders-letter-isbn-9780771066726","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}