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Book Review
The poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen, vol two: the later years
1994
Overview
The next best thing to hearing her is to sit down with her poems and be reminded of the vatic power of her words. Seven years after her death, Exile Editions has published a two - volume selection of her work, including a short excerpt from her novel. The first volume begins with an introduction by Margaret Atwood; the second, with one by Rosemary Sullivan, who has just completed a biography of MacEwen. These, along with the notes that introduce the selections from each of MacEwen's books, establish a context. Their brevity ensures they won't interfere with the reader's own response to the poetry, but they provide directional signs to help us follow this amazing poetic journey, which began when MacEwen was 16 and ended when she was 45. Even in her narrative pieces, MacEwen is a muse poet, a poet of inspiration who intimately shares her wide - ranging intelligence and the extravagant creations of her imagination. Though her poems are ultimately optimistic in their engagement with the world and their insistence that Something survives in the midst of Nothing, the word \"darkness\" is ubiquitous in the two volumes. Appropriately, her last poem concludes:
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Canadian Review of Books Ltd
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