Carol Shields

Collected Poetry of Carol Shields

Collected Poetry of Carol Shields

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The Collected Poetry of Carol Shields is a comprehensive collection of over eighty unpublished poems by the Pulitzer Prize and Governor General's Award-winning fiction writer Carol Shields. It includes three previously published collections and provides contextualization against the background of Shields's life and oeuvre. The poems illuminate her fiction and serve as testing ground for metaphors, revealing her career-long interest in character and setting, gender and class, self and other, actuality and numinousness, and subversive feminism. The volume is essential for all readers of Shields.

Format: Hardback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 15 October 2021
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press


Carol Shields, renowned for her exceptional fiction writing, achieved remarkable accolades by securing both the Pulitzer Prize and the Governor General's Award for Fiction for her novel, The Stone Diaries. However, her literary prowess extended far beyond fiction, as she crafted hundreds of captivating poems throughout her illustrious career.

The Collected Poetry of Carol Shields presents a comprehensive collection that encompasses three previously published collections and over eighty unpublished poems. Spanning from the early 1970s to Shieldss passing in 2003, this anthology offers a profound insight into the poetic journey of this extraordinary writer. In a meticulously crafted introduction and commentary by Nora Foster Stovel, the poems are contextualized against the backdrop of Shieldss life and oeuvre, as well as the rich traditions of twentieth-century poetry. Stovel adeptly demonstrates how poetry influenced and informed Shieldss novels, with many of the poems serving as miniature narratives that illuminate her fiction and act as the testing ground for the metaphors she later employed in her prose works. Through her detailed annotations, based on extensive research in the Carol Shields fonds at Library and Archives Canada, Stovel unveils the profound depth and resonance of these poems, revealing the dignity and consequence they afford to ordinary individuals.

This first complete collection of Carol Shields's poetry is a testament to her immense talent and is an essential read for all enthusiasts of her work. It serves as a gateway into the world of her poetic vision, offering a glimpse into the rich tapestry of emotions, ideas, and narratives that she so masterfully crafted throughout her lifetime. The Collected Poetry of Carol Shields is a treasure trove that will captivate and inspire readers for generations to come.


Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780228008866

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