by Allan Briesmaster
Publisher: Seraphim Editions
Genre: poetry; relationships
Format: trade paperback; 84 pages
Price: $16.95 
This collection represents the poet's most wide-ranging and artistically adventurous work to date. Finely crafted with sensuously layered language and diverse in form and style, Confluences
is divided into four parts with several overlapping themes: reflections on what has come down to us from antiquity including some of the pre-Socratic philosophers, encounters with the Canadian eco-landscape, comments on eminent - and favourite - writers (Rilke, Alberti and Bonnefoy), and explorations of such familiar subjects as friendship, love, music and aging. All are beautifully brought together with sensitivity and passion.