Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida
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Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida
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Author : Roo Borson
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2004-03-16
Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida written by Roo Borson and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Roo Borson’s new watershed collection, it is as though language were being taught to increase its powers of concentration, to hearken simultaneously to the fully impinged-upon senses, the reflecting mind with its griefs and yearnings, the heart with its burden of live memory. Always “the line bends as the river bends,” a quick ever-adjusting music that carries in its current those cherished, perishable, details of eye and ear, mid-life reflections on loss and home, the subtle shifts in season suddenly made strange and re-awakened. Recurrently, probingly, the line returns to the place of poetry in our lives. In the spirit of Basho’s famous journey to the far north, Borson’s “short journey” reminds us of the role of poetry in shaping and deepening our engagement with the world.
Rain Road An Open Boat
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Author : Roo Borson
language : en
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Release Date : 2013-11-26
Rain Road An Open Boat written by Roo Borson and has been published by McClelland & Stewart this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-26 with Poetry categories.
The first new collection of poetry from Roo Borson since her highly acclaimed collection Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida, winner of three major prizes, including the Griffin Poetry Prize. Roo Borson's new collection continues the exploration of form, tone, musicality, and content begun in her widely acclaimed previous collection. Here, co-existing peacefully, are the river stone, painted white, that greets the visitor to the grave of the poet James K. Baxter in the far back country of New Zealand's Wanganui River; the Beijing night sky, turned apricot by the smog and full moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival; the crypts of Toronto's Mount Pleasant Cemetery, seen as potential living spaces; an old friend speaking "knowledgeably, reverentially, and at the same time light-heartedly, in this way gradually restoring significance to the world." By turns wry and ecstatic, droll and elegiac, quizzical and contemplative, this is a major new work by one of our most singular and compelling poets.
Cardinal In The Eastern White Cedar
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Author : Roo Borson
language : en
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Release Date : 2017-03-28
Cardinal In The Eastern White Cedar written by Roo Borson and has been published by McClelland & Stewart this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-28 with Poetry categories.
A captivating and poignant new collection of poetry from Griffin Poetry Prize winner Roo Borson that probes some of our most important questions. After Roo Borson's two previous collections -- Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida and Rain; road; an open boat -- set the seasons in motion, focusing the poet's mind on time, mortality, transience, and absence, Cardinal in the Eastern White Cedar arrives to complete the triptych. From the glittering, classically rendered image to a freighted, lucid, narrative line, Borson's voice can shift and refract while holding true to the momentary facts of the shifting, given world. Her meditations are a kind of fidelity to inquiry, to attachment, to what can't be fully known. Here the distant past collides with the near future, the present opens suddenly into another age, and friendship becomes the measure of time's salience. These poems depict what vanishes, the various modest homes where half-remembered lives all flow toward their common end. Roo Borson has crowned a sustained achievement with a work of startling intimacy and vividness.
Benevolence
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Author : Cynthia Holz
language : en
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Release Date : 2011-03-15
Benevolence written by Cynthia Holz and has been published by Knopf Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-15 with Fiction categories.
Cynthia Holz's first novel with Knopf Canada is a spellbinding story that offers an intimate look at family, friendship and altruism, and unrolls a cast of characters you can't help but root for even as you question some of the things they do. Dr. Ben Wasserman, an organ transplant psychiatrist, is having trouble assessing a would-be kidney donor who may turn out to be a bona fide altruist. But as his interest in the man grows, so do his professional and emotional conflicts. At the same time, Ben's psychologist wife, Renata Moon, is struggling to treat a phobic client whose husband died in a train crash. When the young woman reveals that she is pregnant, Renata's disappointment in her own childless marriage is triggered anew. Ben and Renata work hard all day, then go home to squabble over the nightly take-out. It doesn't help to ease the rising tension in their marriage that Ben's widowed mother, Molly, has made her disapproval of her yet-to-be-pregnant daughter-in-law well known. Nor does it help when Molly takes in a boarder, a man from her past whose secrets threaten to complicate the family dynamics even more. Benevolence is intelligent, amusing and deeply humane, a novel that asks unsettling questions, makes surprising connections and allows room for some unexpected, magical solutions.
The Oxford Companion To Modern Poetry In English
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Author : Jeremy Noel-Tod
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-05-23
The Oxford Companion To Modern Poetry In English written by Jeremy Noel-Tod and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
This impressive volume provides over 1,700 biographical entries on poets writing in English from 1910 to the present day, including T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Carol Ann Duffy. Authoritative and accessible, it is a must-have for students of English and creative writing, as well as for anyone with an interest in poetry.
Water Memory
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Author : Roo Borson
language : en
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Limited
Release Date : 1996
Water Memory written by Roo Borson and has been published by McClelland & Stewart Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Poetry categories.
A new collection of free-verse and prose poems by Borson. Some strong language.
The Cambridge Companion To Canadian Literature
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Author : Eva-Marie Kröller
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-06-08
The Cambridge Companion To Canadian Literature written by Eva-Marie Kröller and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.
Reading Writers Reading
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Author : Danielle Schaub
language : en
Publisher: University of Alberta
Release Date : 2006
Reading Writers Reading written by Danielle Schaub and has been published by University of Alberta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"I am a writer because I was a reader first." Alison Gordon. "Nobody has ever written who never read." Mavis Gallant. "Reading is a connection, at once a way and a goal, a liberating destiny." Robert Kroetsch. Over 160 Canadian writers, in English and French, write about their experiences of reading. With striking photographs of each writer, Reading Writers Reading offers a sublime voyage into the heart of literary creation.
History Of Literature In Canada
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Author : Reingard M. Nischik
language : en
Publisher: Camden House
Release Date : 2008
History Of Literature In Canada written by Reingard M. Nischik and has been published by Camden House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
The development of literature in Canada with an eye to its multicultural, multiethnic, multilingual nature. From modest colonial beginnings, literature in Canada has arrived at the center stage of world literature. Works by English-Canadian writers -- both established writers such as Margaret Atwood and new talents such as Yann Martel -- make regular appearances on international bestseller lists. French-Canadian literature has also found its own voice in the North American and francophone worlds. "CanLit" has likewise developed into a staple of academic interest, pursued in Canadian Studies programs in Canada and around the world. This volume draws on the expertise of scholars from Canada, Germany, Austria, and France, tracing Canadian literature from the indigenous oral tradition to thedevelopment of English-Canadian and French-Canadian literature since colonial times. Conceiving of Canada as a single but multifaceted culture, it accounts for specific characteristics of English- and French-Canadian literatures, such as the vital role of the short story in English Canada or that of the chanson in French Canada. Yet special attention is also paid to Aboriginal literature and to the pronounced transcultural, ethnically diverse character ofmuch contemporary Canadian literature, thus moving clearly beyond the traditions of the two founding nations. Contributors: Reingard M. Nischik, Eva Gruber, Iain M. Higgins, Guy Laflèche, Dorothee Scholl, Gwendolyn Davies, Tracy Ware, Fritz Peter Kirsch, Julia Breitbach, Lorraine York, Marta Dvorak, Jerry Wasserman, Ursula Mathis-Moser, Doris G. Eibl, Rolf Lohse, Sherrill Grace, Caroline Rosenthal, Martin Kuester, Nicholas Bradley, Anne Nothof, Georgiana Banita, Gilles Dupuis, and Andrea Oberhuber. Reingard M. Nischik is Professor of American Literature at the University of Constance, Germany.
Beauty And Sadness Or The Intermingling Of Life And Literature
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Author : André Alexis
language : en
Publisher: House of Anansi
Release Date : 2010
Beauty And Sadness Or The Intermingling Of Life And Literature written by André Alexis and has been published by House of Anansi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Award-winning novelist and critic Andre Alexis explores worlds with names such as Henry James, Maupassant, and Kawabata, trying, like any traveller, to faithfully convey what he sees and feels in those places while giving a convincing portrait of himself. At the same time, Beauty and Sadness is an autobiography. Alexis's intent is to give a sense of what it is like to live ecstatically through literature -- what it is like to read Tolstoy and feel that The Death of Ivan Ilych, for instance, is connected to the land of his birth, Trinidad, as intimately as it is to his home, Canada. In the final piece of the book, entitled "Water", Alexis gives the reader an intimate sense of what it has been like to live as a writer these last twenty years while practicing an art form (fiction/literature) that he contends is in decline. In the author's own words: Beauty and sadness is where world and words meet.