The Fly in Autumn

By: David Zieroth

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Paperback | 1 May 2009

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96 Pages

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22.8 x 15.2 x 0.6

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Selected for Poetry in Transit 2009

The Fly in Autumn is a nuanced work with an absurdist twist in which recognizable landscapes--of North Vancouver quays and piers and harbour fog--are sometimes irrevocably altered by "water-light" into places of the mind alive with "the hundred thousand thoughts everyone collects in a day." Risking unease, using language both tender and ironic, Zieroth's poems range from the cockiness of flight, from Dick and Jane readers to insurance clerks and blind nurses, and to the inevitability of decline. Still, the poet remains alert to the re-emergence of "his boyhood hope: to be brave, to ship out, to learn to sleep on waves."

Industry Reviews

November 2010 - Vancouver poet David Zieroth has been shortlisted for the 2010 Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry for his eighth collection, The Fly in Autumn. The collection won the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry in November 2009, and was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in Spring 2010. The jury for the Governor General's Literary Award noted, "The Fly in Autumn is a note-perfect rendering of the poet's greatest challenge--to risk oneself in the name of knowing and feeling. It reveals that quietness need not mean silence, that modesty need not mean invisibility, and that comfort is not always found in ease." The Fly in Autumn is a nuanced work with an absurdist twist in which recognizable landscapes--of North Vancouver quays and piers and harbour fog--are sometimes irrevocably altered by "water-light" into places of the mind alive with "the hundred thousand thoughts everyone collects in a day." David Zieroth's poetry has appeared in dozens of anthologies and he has written eight other books.

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