Common Place Ecstasies By Wendy McGrath 9780888784117 (Paperback)

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Poetry

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Wordery

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Dundurn press

Common Place Ecstasies : Dundurn Press : 9780888784117 : 0888784112 : 16 Nov 2000 : With sublime poetic insight, Wendy McGrath takes us on a tour of everyday objects and events that celebrates what many of us take for granted. A truck-stop diner is obliquely referenced to the subject of Vincent van Gogh's The Night Cafe. A refracted glimpse of a typical suburban couple is transmuted into a modern-day version of a wedding portrait by Jan van Eyck. Old brown boots lined with newspapers sum up the hard life of a construction worker. Tupperware is no ordinary plastic in scattered snapshots from a single day in the life of an outwardly ordinary family.

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