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and lush with potent symbolism and simple
creativity and insight
Publication Date: 23/10/2006
ISBN: 9780889715080
author of Reproduction (winner of the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize) and Personals (shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize)
Head Full of Sun Jim Johnstone and lush with potent symbolismDescription Head Full of Sun celebrates poetry and language's rich spiritual heritage by weaving together the biblical and the personal. Carla Funk uses biblical forms and stories to explore the human condition and give blood and bone to the spiritual. These poems lament, question and sing praise as they wrestle with the divine. In the main component of this collection, Funk has created an "Alphabet of Psalms" that works to find a song in every corner