Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems

Night Work: The Sawchuk PoemsIn 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