Nothing More Perfect

The award-winning poet Marty Gervais looks no further than life as it unfolds around him. He sees poetry as "the history of the human heart," and it is there that he discovers the substance for these new poems where the writer wrestles with the universal questions age, illness, and even death but not without showing the reader the tremendous power devotion plays in the conduct of one's life. This eclectic mix of poems are about boxers and singers, monks and priests in the Andes, and about a brother finding a 'cure' for blindness. Other poems speak about what people know, or see, or where they have been, or what they think. The beauty of Gervais' voice resides in his ability to hear what others have said and to give thanks for the love that being with others has brought him.

Author: Marty Gervais
Publisher: Mosaic Press
Published: 07/29/2021
Pages: 104
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.40h x 4.90w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9781771615600
ISBN10: 1771615605
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Canadian | General

About the Author
Marty Gervais is a Canadian poet, photographer, journalist, and teacher. Gervais has also published plays, children's books, non-fiction, and a book of photography, A Show of Hands: Boxing on the Border (2004). In 1998, he won the prestigious Toronto's Harbourfront Festival Prize for his contributions to Canadian letters and to emerging writers. In 1996, he was awarded the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award for his book, Tearing into A Summer Day. That book was awarded the City of Windsor Mayor's Award for literature. Gervais won this award again in 2003 for another collection, To Be Now: New and Selected Poems. Gervais has also been the recipient of 16 Western Ontario Newspaper Awards for journalism.