Forget-Sadness-Grass

Forget-Sadness-Grass

by Antony Di Nardo

$17.95

  • October 2022
  • print ISBN: 978-1-55380-668-4
  • ebook ISBN: 978-1-55380-669-1
  • PDF ISBN: 978-1-55380-670-7
  • 6″ x 9″ trade paper, 82 pages
  • Poetry




Forget-Sadness-Grass included on the CBC’s list of poetry collections to watch for this fall!



“SHADOWS OF A LATE AFTERNOON”

Shadows of a late afternoon lay down their heads

and rest at the feet of the lilies

Across the great lawn,

the greatest show on earth

I-beams of light raised high above the pillars to build a crystal palace

And if it weren’t for the sun

there’d be no shadows, no shadows

for the lilies to see themselves as they are


Antony Di Nardo’s poems have a sublime precision that relies on the sonic and visual play of language. In poetry that surprises as much as it illuminates, Di Nardo delves into aspects of mortality, memory and forgetting, the cycles of loss and discovery.


Di Nardo’s sixth collection takes its name from the Chinese ideogram for daylily, that tawny orange blossom, which bursts its borders in the summer and, in this book, finds its way into poetry that blurs the line between mysticism and lyricism


“This is a wonderfully variegated collection, where the poet evokes the life of the daylily, meditating on its beauty, couture, and transience, making surprising and mysterious connections to our personal experiences while expressing universal truths.”
— Laurence Hutchman, author of In the Writers’ Words: Conversations with Ten Canadian Poets