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1-896860-67-2 Carousel: Poems and Pictures (poetry) 12.95
published 1999 80 pages
Carousel contains
joyous poems and wiggly sketches by a poet known for his wit and thoughtfulness.
The poems get down in the dirt with slugs and fly with Icarus toward the
sun, but find in both slug slime and immolation a glimpse of the everlasting.
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978-1-897430-84-2 Collage (poetry) 21.95
published 2012 95 pages
George Whipple’s new poems dance and move upon the waters of the mind, even as they celebrate the mystery and flow of life. Collage, Whipple’s 14th book, muses on mortality, beauty, childhood, growing up and the continuity of life, delighting in each moment and each breath we take as the poems move from the world of innocence to the world of experience. |
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1-894800-30-3 Fanfares (poetry) 15.95
published 2003 72 pages
Praised by Margaret Avison
and John Robert Columbo, George Whipple is a poet's poet. These poems
combine literary freedom within a matrix of restraint where the new and
traditional, the sacred and profane, the universal and the local join
in expressions of graphic joy and lyric praise. |
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1-896860-01-X Hats Off to the Sun (poetry) 12.95
published 1996 88 pages
Hats Off to the Sun celebrates the mysteries of daily life with poems of well-being, poems
of love, poems of praise and poems of prayer. Polished and multi-faceted,
the poems sparkle with the joy of existence. |
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ISBN 978-1-897430-09-5 Kites (poetry) 18.95
published 2007 88 pages
Kites features playful poems and drawings by the
author. Though tethered to everyday realities, they reach for something
other. |
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978-1-897430-61-3 The Seven Wonders of the Leg (poetry) 21.95
published 2010 96 pages
George Whipple has
been called ‘a poet’s poet’ and his most recent volume
reveals the truth of this statement. Now in his eighties, Whipple casts
an observant eye on life, love, memory and mortality in poems that startle
with both lyricism and wry economy. Divided into seven sections, this
thirteenth published book of poems from Vancouver’s George Whipple,
celebrates the poet’s devotion to craft while mining the human dimensions
of being for spiritual essence. |