Loop

Name: Loop
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ISBN: 9780771080753

ISBN-10: 0771080751

ISBN-13: 9780771080753

Edition: 2003

Authors: Anne Simpson

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By the author of Light Falls Through You and the novel Canterbury Beach In Loop, Anne Simpson explores the power, and the anguish, of many different modes of return – retrieval, revision, the covering of old ground with eyes wider and thoughts reconditioned by difficult wisdom. These poems occur at that place where a focused, compassionate vision comes to inhabit language and to find the forms that will suffice: a Möbius strip poem that loops back on itself; a crown of sonnets that take us back to the shock and grief of the twin towers and find deep resonance with paintings by Brueghel; a set of quick improvisations like the motion studies done for a drawing class. Simpson’s work shows us,…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Publication date: 3/25/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 104
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English



A Name, Many Names I knew you long before I saw you, one thing inside another making itself up. Lightly, snow fell, kept falling the night you were born - like those prayers tied to branches by the Japanese - scissored bits of paper, each one a word: a name, many names, loose in the dark.


Later you'll need a name that's door and window, roof and bed. You'll need a name to foil the thief that comes to live in your heart. But now you need a name so diaphanous and small it takes its shape from air.


Anne Simpson is the author of three books of poetry, Light Falls Through You, winner of the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Atlantic Poetry Prize; Loop, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize; and, most recently, Quick. She is also the author of a novel, Canterbury Beach. She lives in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, where she helped establish the Writing Centre at St. Francis Xavier University.


A Word about the Poem by Anne Simpson I wrote "Name, Many Names" after the birth of my first child. Snow was falling that night; it was a delicate, shimmering thing in the darkness. Visiting hours were over at the hospital, and even my husband had gone home. I was half-asleep, thinking about what it is to name a child, and I realized that I wanted my son to have one name for the world, and another name that was not for the world at all, but something else - a hidden name.