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James Deahl was born in Pittsburgh in 1945, and grew up in that city as well as in and around the Laurel Highlands of the Appalachian Mountains. He moved to Canada in 1970 and holds Canadian citizenship. He is the author or editor of forty literary titles, recently his two prior collections from Guernica, Rooms the Wind Makes and Red Haws to Light the Field, as well as Tamaracks: Canadian poetry for the 21st century, the first major anthology of Canadian poetry published in the U.S. in three decades. He is the father of Sarah, Simone, and Shona, with whom he is translating the poetry of the Qubcois poet mile Nelligan. Deahl lives in Sarnia with companion Norma West Linder.
The landscape and its inhabitants are portrayed more like the accurate work of Canadian High Realist painters than the Group of Seven. There are meditations, eulogies and laments contained here, passionate love poems, poems that call upon national and generational history, and poems of political assessment. For Deahl, nature is the indifferent standard against which human activities can be compared, lauded, or found wanting. The forests renew as if trees conferred redemption even while evil [is] transforming the face of the norm. -- David Haskins, Canadian Stories
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