Two Songs: Selected Poems 2000-2025
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Russell Thornton—a Canadian poet in the tradition of Irving Layton, Earle Birney, and Gwendolyn MacEwen—celebrates the fierce mysteries of life in these lyrics of love, loss, and metamorphosis.
“Life and Death were songs …” With this epigraph from Nikos Kazantzakis’ The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, Thornton introduces his own tightly woven life-death songs as he has practiced them over twenty-five years. His themes are nature’s beautiful din, the love and violence of families, the serious smile...






















