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The Impossible Uprooting
The Impossible Uprooting was published as a paperback by McClelland & Stewart in 1995 and went out of print in 2004. It is here re-issued as an e-book only.
Selected Reviews of Waltner-Toews's poetry
"Waltner-Toews' gift is this rare ability to find in mundane events, in a relentless environment and persistent human failing the miracle of wonder, the capacity for love." -Di Brandt, The Mennonite Reporter
"He is a poet with an extraordinary lightness of touch." - David Helwig, The Toronto Star
"If a poet of Waltner-Toews' clear vision, strong principles and mischievous good humour were running the world, I'd sleep a lot easier and breath a lot more freely. Hell, I'd probably even start chuckling at unexpected moments, without warning." Andreas Schroeder
"There is a fine sense of the ambiguity and elusiveness of life that animates these poems and gives them a quality of surprise and vitality." Winnipeg Free Press
"What impresses about "Endangered Species" is the breadth of conscience welded to an expert craft. Waltner-Toews has enlarged the notion of 'ecology' to include family, friends and history. In fact, his is an ecology of 'heart', uncluttered with political or ideological bias. He is perhaps prejudiced by an old-fashioned 'humanness'. In an age of strident right'-mongers, Waltner-Toews outrage is clean and his compassion is convincing. He is no prophet, however; he is a family man whose bedtime stories would include a legacy for the whole world." - Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
"
He's a singer, a Whitmanic bard... he avoids cant and humbug. " George Elliot Clarke.
Selected Reviews of Waltner-Toews's poetry
"Waltner-Toews' gift is this rare ability to find in mundane events, in a relentless environment and persistent human failing the miracle of wonder, the capacity for love." -Di Brandt, The Mennonite Reporter
"He is a poet with an extraordinary lightness of touch." - David Helwig, The Toronto Star
"If a poet of Waltner-Toews' clear vision, strong principles and mischievous good humour were running the world, I'd sleep a lot easier and breath a lot more freely. Hell, I'd probably even start chuckling at unexpected moments, without warning." Andreas Schroeder
"There is a fine sense of the ambiguity and elusiveness of life that animates these poems and gives them a quality of surprise and vitality." Winnipeg Free Press
"What impresses about "Endangered Species" is the breadth of conscience welded to an expert craft. Waltner-Toews has enlarged the notion of 'ecology' to include family, friends and history. In fact, his is an ecology of 'heart', uncluttered with political or ideological bias. He is perhaps prejudiced by an old-fashioned 'humanness'. In an age of strident right'-mongers, Waltner-Toews outrage is clean and his compassion is convincing. He is no prophet, however; he is a family man whose bedtime stories would include a legacy for the whole world." - Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
"
He's a singer, a Whitmanic bard... he avoids cant and humbug. " George Elliot Clarke.
96 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
About the author
David Waltner-Toews
33 books13 followersDavid Waltner-Toews is a veterinary epidemiologist specializing in diseases people get from other animals. A University of Guelph Professor Emeritus and founding president of Veterinarians without Borders-Canada, he was the recipient of the inaugural award for contributions to ecosystem approaches to health from The International Association for Ecology and Health. He is the author of more than twenty award-winning books of poetry, fiction, and science, including, in 2020, “On Pandemics: Deadly Diseases from Bubonic Plague to Coronavirus” and "The Inter-Pandemic Backyard Chicken Book: a retirement memoir, with chickens."
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