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Process poetics is about radical poetry — poetry that challenges dominant world views, values, and aesthetic practices with its use of unconventional punctuation, interrupted syntax, variable subject positions, repetition, fragmentation, and disjunction. To trace the...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2009-10-22
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A four-time Governor General’s-award nominee for both poetry and non-fiction, Christopher Dewdney is celebrated internationally as a writer and a visionary and is best known for his particular imagining of place and memory. Beginning with Paleozoic fossil formations in...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2009-10-21
Collection :
Laurier Poetry
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Dennis Cooley, one of Canada’s most prominent poets, says writing becomes political when you play with certain kinds of voices. His poetry has been influenced and inspired by the prairies and other Canadian poets, but he insists on disturbing the formal poetic...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2009-10-21
Collection :
Laurier Poetry
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A passionate believer in the power of art—and especially poetry—to influence and critique contemporary culture, Louis Dudek devoted much of his life to shaping the Canadian literary scene through his meditative and experimental poems as well as his work in publishing...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2009-08-07
Collection :
Laurier Poetry
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The selected poems in Desire Never Leaves span Tim Lilburn’s career, demonstrating the evolution of a unique and careful thinker as he takes his place among the nation’s premier writers. This edition of his poetry untangles many of the strands running through his...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2009-08-03
Collection :
Laurier Poetry
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This volume features thirty-five of Don McKay’s best poems, which are selected with a contextualizing introduction by Méira Cook that probes wilderness and representation in McKay, and the canny, quirky, thoughtful, and sometimes comic self-consciousness the poems...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2009-08-02
Collection :
Laurier Poetry
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“Do we want love / each and every day of our lives?” Jan Conn asks in a poem called “Michoacán.” “You bet your ass,” she answers. The poems of Botero’s Beautiful Horses are charged with otherness, bright with the exhilaration and danger of transformation. Many are...
Editeur :
Brick Books
Parution :
2009-04-15
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“Do we want love / each and every day of our lives?” Jan Conn asks in a poem called “Michoacán.” “You bet your ass,” she answers. The poems of Botero’s Beautiful Horses are charged with otherness, bright with the exhilaration and danger of transformation. Many are...
Editeur :
Brick Books
Parution :
2009-04-15
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Pluriel provides a composite snapshot, taken from a few particular angles, of the variety of poems written in Canada over the past few decades. In shaping this anthology the editors were attracted to the diverse cultural and social responses evident in the work of poets...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2008-03-29
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A poet of osmosis explores the implicit relationship between matter and spirit, the interconnectedness of the universe.In his first full-length collection since 1998's Parish of the Psychic Moon, Don Domanski writes with clarity of vision. He is a poet of the holiness...
Editeur :
Brick Books
Parution :
2007-04-24
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A poet of osmosis explores the implicit relationship between matter and spirit, the interconnectedness of the universe.In his first full-length collection since 1998's Parish of the Psychic Moon, Don Domanski writes with clarity of vision. He is a poet of the holiness...
Editeur :
Brick Books
Parution :
2007-04-24
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In Lunar Drift, award-winning poet Marlene Cookshaw’s study of time is a lyric meditation on order and wilderness, in which the human construction of time becomes something against which our own lives are bent and measured.
From weight to coiled spring: in one...
Editeur :
Brick Books
Parution :
2005-10-15
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Lorna Crozier’s radical imagination, and the finely tuned emotional intelligence that is revealed in the clarity of her poetry, have made her one of Canada’s most popular poets. Before the First Word: The Poetry of Lorna Crozier is a collection of thirty-five of her...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2005-09-21
Collection :
Laurier Poetry
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The Burning Alphabet confirms and extends Barry Dempster’s reputation as one of Canada’s most respected poets. Underpinning these poems, as in his previous work, there lies an unswerving dedication to emotional and spiritual honesty, clear-eyed recognitions rendered...
Editeur :
Brick Books
Parution :
2005-04-15
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Mortal Arguments is Sue Sinclair’s second poetry collection. In it, she continues her extraordinary phenomenological investigation of lived experience, addressing with increasing urgency issues of profound philosophical and political importance such as consumerism,...
Editeur :
Brick Books
Parution :
2003-09-15
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Mortal Arguments is Sue Sinclair’s second poetry collection. In it, she continues her extraordinary phenomenological investigation of lived experience, addressing with increasing urgency issues of profound philosophical and political importance such as consumerism,...
Editeur :
Brick Books
Parution :
2003-09-15
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Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen’s second poetry collection has the condensed intensity of light from old stars. Like a slow, multifoliate explosion, her metaphors track the luminous traces left by the mind as it flows into and away from the life of the body. She is a poet’s...
Editeur :
Brick Books
Parution :
2003-03-15
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Dead Man's Float details that sad emblem of Western alienation, the tourist couple in their rented tropical Eden. Here life is temporary and not at all cheap. The wildlife is spectacular, the culture incomprehensible, and the locals politely try to hide their hilarity...
Editeur :
Brick Books
Parution :
2002-01-01
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Sideshow Concessions is the first book from queer performer and scholar Lucas Crawford. A collection populated by the circus-like bodies and experiences of a narrator navigating rural pasts and urban presents,Sideshow Concessions is the unofficial story of someone who...
Editeur :
Invisible Publishing
Parution :
1999-12-31
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Precisely etched meditations on public and private experience, charged landscapes and reconceived Greek myths.
Editeur :
Brick Books
Parution :
1986-06-01
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