Momentary Dark by Margaret Avison - Poetry Is - Brick Books Poetry Map (sitios de interés)
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Toronto, Ontario - “Poetry Is” is from Momentary Dark, and is used with permission from McClelland and Stewart. Margaret Avison was born in Ontario. She attended public school in Western Canada, high school and university in Toronto. She spent eight months in Chicago in 1956-57, on a Guggenheim Foundation Grant. She has worked in libraries, publishing houses, universities, archives, and missions, was writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario in 1972-73. In 1985 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. She was awarded three honorary degrees and two Governor General's Awards for Poetry (for Winter Sun and No Time. In 2003 she was the winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize and the CAA Jack Chalmers Poetry Award and received a Globe 100 citation for her book Concrete and Wild Carrot
