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Nocturnal
Tonglen
is a stirring first book of poetry by Derek Hanebury, dealing with the
disappearance of a young woman, his sister-in-law, Carolyn Pruyser. This
19-year-old university student’s car was found abandoned in 1984,
not far from her family’s farm. Despite an extensive search and
investigation, her body was never discovered and no one was ever charged.
Hanebury’s poems chronicle both anguish and the healing journey
brought on by that mysterious event. Angry at times, but also elegiac,
the poetry of Nocturnal Tonglen confronts the darkness of suffering
and, like the Buddhist practice of tonglen, exhales the white light of
love and compassion.
Derek Hanebury is
the author of the novel Ginger Goodwin: Beyond the Forbidden Plateau.
His poems and stories have been published magazines and broadcast on CBC
radio. He teaches English and creative writing.at North Island College
in Port Alberni, BC. This is his first book of poetry.
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