Stilt Jack
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Stilt Jack
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Author : John Thompson
language : en
Publisher: A List
Release Date : 2019-04-16
Stilt Jack written by John Thompson and has been published by A List this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-16 with Poetry categories.
Originally published in 1978, Stilt Jack is a series of powerful soliloquies on the complexity of love and the process of living. These are made immediate through Thompson's command of metaphor, his eye for the New Brunswick landscape, his intense, often elliptical way of transfiguring everyday things into shorthand symbols of reality. This remarkable sequence of poems is based on the ghazal, an ancient Persian poetic form which is discussed in Thompson's introduction to the original edition of the book. These poems more than fulfill the promise of Thompson's first collection, At the Edge of the Chopping There Are No Secrets. Stilt Jack is the last testament of a major poet at the pinnacle of his craft.
Searun
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Author : Peter Sanger
language : en
Publisher: Antigonish, N.S. : Xavier Press
Release Date : 1986
Searun written by Peter Sanger and has been published by Antigonish, N.S. : Xavier Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Literary Criticism categories.
Our Secret Discipline
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Author : Helen Vendler
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2007-11-29
Our Secret Discipline written by Helen Vendler and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-29 with Business & Economics categories.
The fundamental difference between rhetoric and poetry, according to Yeats, is that rhetoric is the expression of ones quarrels with others while poetry is the expression of ones quarrel with oneself. Through exquisite attention to outer and inner forms, Vendler explores the most inventive reaches of the poets mind.
Sea Run
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Author : Peter Sanger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Sea Run written by Peter Sanger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with categories.
"This book first appeared in 1986 in what was essentially a privately published monograph that was printed for the author by the publishers of the literary periodical The Antigonish Review. It was privately circulated and hard to find. Gaspereau Press's 2023 edition is completely revised and extended and adds new essays and an index. It's a completly different book built out of the original monograph. Sea Run is a fully revised and expanded edition of Peter Sanger's scarce, privately circulated monograph on the sources and possible meanings of John Thompson's influential poetry collection Stilt Jack (1978). Working with manuscripts, typescripts, documents and other personal papers that were unavailable at the time of Sea Run's first appearance in the 1980s, Sanger has produced "a species of notebook compiled at a pedestrian's pace, with allowance for detour and obstacles." Sea Run offers readers a window both into the texts and cultural contexts underpinning Thompson's richly allusive poems, and also into a mode of reading and thinking about poetry that recognizes and engages the "cultural keepings" in which literature isrooted."--
The Tantramar Re Vision
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Author : Kevin Irie
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2021-08-04
The Tantramar Re Vision written by Kevin Irie and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-04 with Poetry categories.
I've lived the way a field is sometimes / a shelter for mice / or sometimes a source of game / for a hawk Inspired by the literary landscape of the late poet John Thompson, Kevin Irie's The Tantramar Re-Vision presents a portrait of nature where the benign and the bedevilled coexist, collude, or collide. The Tantramar Re-Vision charts routes of discovery as it follows trails, waterways, flights, and fears, be it through the woods, the wilds, the page, or the mind where "it's hard to admit / you are not to your taste." It questions an existence in which the inhuman thrives, ignorant of divinity, while the human psyche continues to search for answers as "life takes directions / away from" it. The Tantramar Marsh setting of John Thompson's Stilt Jack resonates with Irie's landscapes of birds, fish, plants, and wildlife, all still within reach yet part of a world where "wind carries sounds / it cannot hear." Insightful and meditative, The Tantramar Re-Vision is poetry of the inner self and the outside observer, a poetic testament to the ways literature creates its own landmarks and nature survives without knowing a word.
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.
Strike Anywhere
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Author : Michael Lista
language : en
Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill
Release Date : 2016-07-08
Strike Anywhere written by Michael Lista and has been published by The Porcupine's Quill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-08 with Literary Collections categories.
"I’d like to think that I’m polarizing the way a battery is," explains Michael Lista in his introduction to Strike Anywhere, "energizing the flashlight by which you read in the dark only because it has a negative and a positive side. Collected here, under one cover, are my cathodes and my anodes." In his self-described ‘arsons’, Lista assesses with equal fire our literary darlings (Anne Carson, Don McKay), talented veterans (Steven Heighton, David McGimpsey) and promising newcomers (Stevie Howell, Aisha Sasha John) of the poetic genre. He depicts a literary institution pathologically averse to the sustenance of a traditional repertoire and addicted to the empty calories of poetic experiments. Television, too, falls prey to his jaundiced eye, from the militant sincerity of The Bachelorette to the receptacle of American anxieties that is The Walking Dead. But beyond passing judgment on the contemporary Literary Industrial Complex, Strike Anywhere acknowledges the inherent contradiction of poetic expression—that its power lies in its uselessness—and recognizes that poets are, nonetheless, the happy few, the unacknowledged legislators of the world. With thoughtfulness, wit and considerable humor, Michael Lista offers a refreshingly candid take on the moral and aesthetic implications of storytelling in all its forms, from boob-tube blockbusters to the latest volume of verse.
Preoccupations
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Author : Seamus Heaney
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2014-01-13
Preoccupations written by Seamus Heaney and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-13 with Literary Collections categories.
Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's first collection of prose, Preoccupations, begins with a vivid account of his early years on his father's farm in Northern Ireland and his coming of age as a student and teacher in Belfast. Subsequent essays include critical work on Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Robert Lowell, William Butler Yeats, John Montague, Patrick Kavanagh, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, and Philip Larkin.
Facing Loss And Death
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Author : Peter Hühn
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2016-08-22
Facing Loss And Death written by Peter Hühn and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Lyric poetry as a temporal art-form makes pervasive use of narrative elements in organizing the progressive course of the poetic text. This observation justifies the application of the advanced methodology of narratology to the systematic analysis of lyric poems. After a concise presentation of this transgeneric approach to poetry, the study sets out to demonstrate its practical fruitfulness in detailed analyses of a large number of English (and some American) poems from the early modern period to the present. The narratological approach proves particularly suited to focus on the hitherto widely neglected dimension of sequentiality, the dynamic progression of the poetic utterance and its eventful turns, which largely constitute the raison d'être of the poem. To facilitate comparisons, the examples chosen share one special thematic complex, the traumatic experience of severe loss: the death of a beloved person, the imminence of one’s own death, the death of a revered fellow-poet and the loss of a fundamental stabilizing order. The function of the poems can be described as facing the traumatic experience in the poetic medium and employing various coping strategies. The poems thus possess a therapeutic impetus.
The Dervishes Of The North
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Author : Merin Shobhana Xavier
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2023-04-28
The Dervishes Of The North written by Merin Shobhana Xavier and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-28 with Religion categories.
The thirteenth-century Muslim mystic and poet Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207–1273) is a popular spiritual icon. His legacy is sustained within the mystical and religious practice of Sufism, particularly through renditions of his poetry, music, and the meditation practice of whirling. In Canada, practices associated with Rumi have become ubiquitous in public spaces, such as museums, art galleries, and theatre halls, just as they continue to inform sacred ritual among Sufi communities. The Dervishes of the North explores what practices associated with Rumi in public and private spaces tell us about Sufism and spirituality, including sacred, cultural, and artistic expressions in the Canadian context. Using Rumi and contemporary expressions of poetry and whirling associated with him, the book captures the lived reality of Sufism through an ethnographic study of communities in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Drawing from conversations with Sufi leaders, whirling dervishes, and poets, Merin Shobhana Xavier explores how Sufism is constructed in Canada, particularly at the nexus of Islamic mysticism, Muslim diaspora, spiritual commodity, popular culture, and universal spirituality. Inviting readers with an interest in religion and spirituality, The Dervishes of the North illuminates how non-European Christian traditions, like Islam and Sufism, have informed the religious and spiritual terrain of Canada.