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In a Time of Distance: and Other Poems
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From the beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series comes a beautiful and transporting volume of poems brimming with warmth and humanity.What matters most in life? For Alexander McCall Smith, it is friendship, love, and travel— the themes found throughout his work that have made him a cherished writer the world over. This first collection of McCall Smith’s poems reflects on these topics with all his characteristic wit and charm. In this delightful work, McCall Smith takes us on a captivating journey from Africa to Greece, London, Canada, Mumbai, and back home to Scotland, celebrating people, places, animals, and books. There are moments of sweeping insight and soaring feeling, and moments that will have you laughing along as they subtly shift your worldview. This inimitable writer shares his distinctively astute and good-natured observations on life, love, and beauty, reminding us of the deep satisfaction that can be found when we open ourselves up to the world with our whole heart, and watch as it takes on a kinder and gentler shape.
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| Weight | 0.28 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 1.73 × 13.42 × 21.04 cm |
| PubliCanadation City/Country | Canada |
| ISBN 10 | 1039000185 |
| About The Author | ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH is the author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels and of a number of other series and standalone books. His works have been translated into more than forty languages and have been bestsellers throughout the world. He lives in Scotland. |
Praise for In a Time of Distance:“His poetic voice is conversational, companionable, friendly. A ‘maker of beautiful books,’ he writes, ‘understands that text/ should whisper to us its message,/ Like a confiding friend,/Not in the trumpet tones/ Of the strident, the polemical/ But gently, tactfully/ In the private places of exchange/ Where the loud and the angry/ Have no wish to linger.’ It is such books, books like this one, that in a time of strident and dishonest polemics readers should attend to with a feeling ear.” —Allan Massie, The Scotsman “The many admirers of the fiction of Alexander McCall Smith will be totally charmed by a book of poems he has produced. He reveals the same genial, quietly wise persona, whether offering gentle philosophy about life, writing about the seven hills of Edinburgh or running an elegant series of sonnets.” —The Herald | |
| Excerpt From Book | From In a Time of Distance and Other PoemsBy Alexander McCall SmithSome years ago I visited a friend who has a cottage in Eastern Ontario. One evening, my friend demonstrated to me an unexpected talent. WOLVES I read Farley Mowat and thoughtI knew something about wolves,About how they run downTheir prey in lengthy pursuit,About the long brotherhoodsOf wolves and their lonely deaths;I thought I knew about all thatUntil I heard a wolf howl in the night,And was unpreparedFor what I heard, for the keeningOf it, the utter desolation.We stood outside, my friend and I,With the world white about usAs he cupped his handsAnd howled into the darkness;From somewhere far awayCame a response, a howl so sadTh at no words could describeTh e regret of it, the loneliness:Yes, I am here, it must have said;Yes, I am here, and that is all. |
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