Night Work

The Sawchuk Poems

Fiction & Literature, Poetry
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Author: Randall Maggs ISBN: 9781894078924
Publisher: Brick Books Publication: January 1, 2008
Imprint: Brick Books Language: English
Author: Randall Maggs
ISBN: 9781894078924
Publisher: Brick Books
Publication: January 1, 2008
Imprint: Brick Books
Language: English

A hockey saga, wrapping the game's story in the "intense, moody, contradictory" character of Terry Sawchuk, one of its greatest goalies. "Denied the leap and dash up the ice,what goalies know is side to side, an inwardness of monkand cell. They scrape. They sweep. Their eyes are elsewhereas they contemplate their narrow place. Like saints, they pray for nothing,which brings grace. Off-days, what they want is space. They sit apartin bars. They know the length of streets in twenty cities.But it's their saving sense of irony that further isolates them as it saves." from "One of You." In compact, conversational poems that build into a narrative long poem, "Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems" follows the tragic trajectory of the life and work of Terry Sawchuk, dark driven genius of a goalie who survived twenty tough seasons in an era of inadequate upper-body equipment and no player representation. But no summary touches the searching intensity of Maggs's poems. They range from meditations on ancient--modern heroism to dramatic capsules of actual games, in which the mystery of character meets the mystery of transcendent physical performance. Night Work is illustrated with photographs mirroring the text, depicting key moments in the career of Terry Sawchuk, his exploits and his agony. "Through his marvelous, moving poetry, Randall Maggs gets closer than any biographer to the heart of the darkest, most troubled figure in the history of the national game. This may be the truest hockey book ever written. It reaches a level untouched by conventional sports literature. His Sawchuk is real."-- Stephen Brunt, Globe and Mail columnist and Canada's premier sportswriter and commentator.

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A hockey saga, wrapping the game's story in the "intense, moody, contradictory" character of Terry Sawchuk, one of its greatest goalies. "Denied the leap and dash up the ice,what goalies know is side to side, an inwardness of monkand cell. They scrape. They sweep. Their eyes are elsewhereas they contemplate their narrow place. Like saints, they pray for nothing,which brings grace. Off-days, what they want is space. They sit apartin bars. They know the length of streets in twenty cities.But it's their saving sense of irony that further isolates them as it saves." from "One of You." In compact, conversational poems that build into a narrative long poem, "Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems" follows the tragic trajectory of the life and work of Terry Sawchuk, dark driven genius of a goalie who survived twenty tough seasons in an era of inadequate upper-body equipment and no player representation. But no summary touches the searching intensity of Maggs's poems. They range from meditations on ancient--modern heroism to dramatic capsules of actual games, in which the mystery of character meets the mystery of transcendent physical performance. Night Work is illustrated with photographs mirroring the text, depicting key moments in the career of Terry Sawchuk, his exploits and his agony. "Through his marvelous, moving poetry, Randall Maggs gets closer than any biographer to the heart of the darkest, most troubled figure in the history of the national game. This may be the truest hockey book ever written. It reaches a level untouched by conventional sports literature. His Sawchuk is real."-- Stephen Brunt, Globe and Mail columnist and Canada's premier sportswriter and commentator.

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