SOURCE: "'Service Is Joy': Margaret Avison's Sonnet Sequence in Winter Sun," in Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 50, Fall, 1993, pp. 210-30.
In the essay below, Calverley argues that "Snow," "Tennis," "Unbroken Lineage," and "Butterfly Bones" form a sonnet sequence and that Avison's purpose is a celebration of "the liberating force of traditional patterns."
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