Falling Night And Rising Day

Download or read book The Self-Completing Tree written by Dorothy Livesay and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1999-12-16 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Self-Completing Tree is the author's own collection of the best of her last 50 years of writing. In this new edition, the celebrated Grand Dame of English Canadian letters and award-winning poet uses the metaphor implied by the title — a tree, half verdant, half in flames — to symbolize the androgynous self. This is the theme of much of Livesay's work and a central metaphor for the most definitive collection of her poetry. The result is a spiritual autobiography charting the fascinating domains of her own life and the universal struggles we all share.