From a Seaside Town Poetry Jay Macpherson’s allusive lyricism and

Jay Macpherson’s allusive lyricism and penchant for mythic resonance have made her work central to the development of Canadian poetry from the mid-century and beyond

her mother’s unhappiness

He currently owns and operates Café Pleiade on Mount Pleasant in Toronto

reading to him from Milton’s Paradise Lost in the lustrated light of the city at night

From a Seaside Town Poetry Jay Macpherson’s allusive lyricism andJoseph Grand, the hero of From a Seaside Town, is a travel writer struggling to eke out an existence in an English seaside town. He introduces us to the small circle of relatives and companions who figure in his life. As he explores the sequence of events that led him to his present state of limbo, it becomes apparent that his crisis is not merely financial but also a crisis of personal identity. A Canadian Jew, Grand has spent a lifetime seeking to