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Download or read book Listening written by Margaret Avison and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year Margaret Avison was widely acknowledged as one of Canada’s foremost poets. Taut, sublime, subtle, and crystalline, the poems in her brilliant new collection, published posthumously, showcase Avison at her best, and constitute the final chapter in an extraordinary artistic legacy that spanned more than forty years.
Book Synopsis The Essential Margaret Avison by : Margaret Avison
Download or read book The Essential Margaret Avison written by Margaret Avison and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth volume of the Porcupine Quill’s acclaimed series of ‘Essential Poets,’ this collection provides an excellent introduction to this prominent Canadian poet and the evolution of her work. Robyn Sarah’s selections amply celebrate Avison’s diverse styles and forms, and reveal Avison’s unique perspective on and response to her world. Here, one can experience Avison’s dazzling diction (‘‘a saucepantilt of water,’’ ‘‘birds clotted in big trees’’), her metaphoric and tonal complexities, and her quiet examination of the world in which she lived. The Essential Margaret Avison also traces her movement from skeptical intellectual to committed Christian. Though some scholars have dismissed her later religious poetry as simplistic and inferior to her earlier work, the truth is more complex, and the line between what is religious and what is not in Avison’s poetry is difficult to draw. Robyn Sarah describes how Avison’s work became ‘‘more and more a poetry of inquiry, an inner pondering of her daily givens,’’ in which her experience of the worldly and the transcendent are inextricably tied. Margaret Avison, honoured by the Griffin Prize and twice by the Governor-General’s Award, was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1985, and died, at the age of 89, in 2007. This singular poet’s legacy is well represented in Robyn Sarah’s thoughtfully chosen selection.
Download or read book Winter Sun written by Margaret Avison and published by London : Routledge and Paul. This book was released on 1960 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis I Am Here and Not Not-there by : Margaret Avison
Download or read book I Am Here and Not Not-there written by Margaret Avison and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2009 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This question was put by a registrant: What makes a poet's language distinctive?' We all fell silent, trying to pin it down, then tried to answer. Not just affection for words, which is common to all good writers; not necessarily a matter of cadence, formal structures, rhythm. The answer that came to me, forced out of minutes of dismissing options, was new to me too: It is saying I am here and not not-there''.'
Book Synopsis Lighting Up the Terrain by : David Kent
Download or read book Lighting Up the Terrain written by David Kent and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insightful and compelling, this collection of appreciations and reminiscences by both Canadian and American poets addresses Margaret Avison as both a Christian poet and as an individual who has influenced her contemporaries. Hoping to throw some light on the mystery of Margaret Avison and especially her achievement as a Christian writer, this book celebrates Avison as both a person and a poet.
Book Synopsis Always Now: From elsewhere ; Winter sun ; The dumbfounding ; Translations by : Margaret Avison
Download or read book Always Now: From elsewhere ; Winter sun ; The dumbfounding ; Translations written by Margaret Avison and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2003 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three volumes of Always Now contain all of Margaret Avison's published books of poetry. The author has removed a very few poems: `Public Address' (from Winter Sun), `The Two Selves' and `In Eporphyrial Harness' (from The Dumbfounding), `Highway in April', `The Evader's Meditation', and `Until Christmas' (from sunblue), `Living the Shadow', `Insomnia' and `Beginning Praise' (from No Time), `Having Stopped Smoking' and `Point of Entry' (from Selected Poems). The opening section of volume one, `From Elsewhere', is arranged according to date of publication, from 1932 to 1991, the date of Selected Poems. `From Elsewhere' includes the `Uncollected' and `New Poems' of that book, except for the two noted above and `The Butterfly', which is here in its original form. All of the poems in Always Now having been considered and reconsidered, and small corrections having been made, the book contains definitively all of the published poems up to 2002 that Margaret Avison wishes to preserve.
Book Synopsis Always Now: Sunblue ; No time by : Margaret Avison
Download or read book Always Now: Sunblue ; No time written by Margaret Avison and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three volumes of Always Now contain all of Margaret Avison's published books of poetry. The author has removed a very few poems: `Public Address' (from Winter Sun), `The Two Selves' and `In Eporphyrial Harness' (from The Dumbfounding), `Highway in April', `The Evader's Meditation', and `Until Christmas' (from sunblue), `Living the Shadow', `Insomnia' and `Beginning Praise' (from No Time), `Having Stopped Smoking' and `Point of Entry' (from Selected Poems). The opening section of volume one, `From Elsewhere', is arranged according to date of publication, from 1932 to 1991, the date of Selected Poems. `From Elsewhere' includes the `Uncollected' and `New Poems' of that book, except for the two noted above and `The Butterfly', which is here in its original form. All of the poems in Always Now having been considered and reconsidered, and small corrections having been made, the book contains definitively all of the published poems up to 2002 that Margaret Avison wishes to preserve.
Download or read book Concrete and Wild Carrot written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Always Now: Not yet but still ; Concrete and wild carrot ; Too towards tomorrow : new poems by : Margaret Avison
Download or read book Always Now: Not yet but still ; Concrete and wild carrot ; Too towards tomorrow : new poems written by Margaret Avison and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2003 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three volumes of Always Now contain all of Margaret Avison's published books of poetry. The author has removed a very few poems: `Public Address' (from Winter Sun), `The Two Selves' and `In Eporphyrial Harness' (from The Dumbfounding), `Highway in April', `The Evader's Meditation', and `Until Christmas' (from sunblue), `Living the Shadow', `Insomnia' and `Beginning Praise' (from No Time), `Having Stopped Smoking' and `Point of Entry' (from Selected Poems). The opening section of volume one, `From Elsewhere', is arranged according to date of publication, from 1932 to 1991, the date of Selected Poems. `From Elsewhere' includes the `Uncollected' and `New Poems' of that book, except for the two noted above and `The Butterfly', which is here in its original form. All of the poems in Always Now having been considered and reconsidered, and small corrections having been made, the book contains definitively all of the published poems up to 2002 that Margaret Avison wishes to preserve.
Download or read book A Day's Grace written by Robyn Sarah and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2003 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Ormsby wrote that `So assured and musical is the hand that shaped them that these poems tend to memorize themselves, as though they had always formed part of our experience.' This is Sarah's sixth full-length collection, marked by its humility, joy and philosophical elegance.
Download or read book Selected Poems written by Margaret Avison and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first selection available in this country of the work of one of Canada's most distinguished writers. An introspective poet with roots in the metaphysical and meditational traditions, Margaret Avison's complex, original, and versatile poetry has had a vast influence on Canadianliterature and won her a host of domestic awards.
Book Synopsis A Persevering Witness by : Elizabeth Davey
Download or read book A Persevering Witness written by Elizabeth Davey and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Avison, one of Canada's premier poets, is a highly sophisticated and self-conscious writer, both charming and intimidating at the same time. She calls to mind her more famous predecessors--the religious poets George Herbert, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot--as she vigorously engages both heart and intellect. "She has forged a way to write against the grain, some of the most humane, sweet and profound poetry of our time," write the judges of the 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize. Becoming a Christian in her mid-forties, her life and her vocation were transformed and her lyrics record that shift. In "Muse of Danger," she writes to Christian college students, "But in His strange and marvelous mercy, God nonetheless lets the believer take a necessary place as a living witness in behavior with family and classmate and stranger, in conversation, or in a poem." How she blends her twin passions of poetry and Christian faith becomes a story of a kind of perseverance. Readers who respond with understanding and empathy recognize both the distinctive mystery of poetic witness and the mystery inherent in Christ's saving work to which it points. Her enduring witness becomes an implicit call for us to persevere in what Avison identifies as the "mix of resurrection life and marred everyday living."
Book Synopsis Margaret Avison's Poetry by : E. Jane Jackman Armstrong
Download or read book Margaret Avison's Poetry written by E. Jane Jackman Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Winter Sun ; The Dumbfounding by : Margaret Avison
Download or read book Winter Sun ; The Dumbfounding written by Margaret Avison and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 1982 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis How to Read (and Write About) Poetry – Second Edition by : Susan Holbrook
Download or read book How to Read (and Write About) Poetry – Second Edition written by Susan Holbrook and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Read (and Write About) Poetry invites students and others curious about poetry to join the critical conversation about a genre many find a little mystifying, even intimidating. In an accessible, engaging manner, this book introduces the productive questions, reading strategies, literary terms, and secondary research tips that will empower readers to participate in literary analysis. Holbrook explicates a number of poems, initiating readers into critical discourse while highlighting key poetic terms. The explications are followed by selections of related works, so the book thus offers what amounts to a brief anthology, ideal for a poetry unit or introductory class on poetry and poetics. A chapter on meter illuminates the rhythmic dimension of poetry and guides readers through methods of scansion. The second edition is updated throughout and includes a fresh selection of poems and the latest MLA citation guidance.
Book Synopsis The Best of the Best Canadian Poetry in English by : Anita Lahey
Download or read book The Best of the Best Canadian Poetry in English written by Anita Lahey and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Best of the Best Canadian Poetry in English takes the pulse of the last decade of Canadian poetry with ninety superb poems that have excelled--twice--at the test of "the best." With poems chosen from the first nine volumes of this landmark series, this special tenth-anniversary edition highlights a vibrant variety of subjects from romance and family to ecology and the economy--not to mention blizzards and bears. Ranging from iconic poets Michael Ondaatje, Anne Carson, George Elliott Clarke, and P.K. Page to notable upstarts, the anthology includes an index for readers, notes from the poets, an illuminating analysis of Canadian poetics by series editor Molly Peacock, and provocative excerpts from past introductions by guest editors Stephanie Bolster, A.F. Moritz, Lorna Crozier, Priscila Uppal, Carmine Starnino, Sue Goyette, Sonnet L'Abbé, Jacob McArthur Mooney, and Helen Humphreys.
Book Synopsis Music, Late and Soon by : Robyn Sarah
Download or read book Music, Late and Soon written by Robyn Sarah and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the J.I. Segal Awards Best Quebec Book on a Jewish Theme • Shortlisted for the The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction A poet rediscovers the artistic passion of her youth—and pays tribute to the teacher she thought she’d lost. After thirty-five years as an “on-again, off-again, uncoached closet pianist,” poet and writer Robyn Sarah picked up the phone one day and called her old piano teacher, whom she had last seen in her early twenties. Music, Late and Soon is the story of her return to studying piano with the mentor of her youth. In tandem, she reflects on a previously unexamined musical past: a decade spent at Quebec’s Conservatoire de Musique, studying clarinet—ostensibly headed for a career as an orchestral musician, but already a writer at heart. A meditation on creative process in both music and literary art, this two-tiered musical autobiography interweaves past and present as it tracks the author’s long-ago defection from a musical career path and her late re-embrace of serious practice. At its core is a portrait of an extraordinary piano teacher and of a relationship remembered and renewed.
