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Dust Blown Side of the Journey

Author : Eleonore Schönmaier
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773550151
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis Dust Blown Side of the Journey by : Eleonore Schönmaier

Download or read book Dust Blown Side of the Journey written by Eleonore Schönmaier and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At times apocalyptic and other times passionate and intimate, Eleonore Schönmaier’s poems show the beauty of the lived and natural world in both wilderness and urban settings. A woman hides her love letters in beehives, a cherry tree in full blossom is transported horizontally on a bike, and three crows tap their beaks on a metal door. A grandmother gestures how birds once flew in blue skies, public smiles are outlawed, and a shot-down jet lands in a field of wildflowers. Men from warm countries wear big coats and are falsely suspected of hiding bombs, an Indigenous man is forced by police into the trunk of a car, and a stork lands in prison under charges of espionage. In Canada, the northern village of Paradise is under evacuation orders, and in Europe Desmond Tutu steps down from a podium into a crowd of photographers. Over a Belgian lunch Frederic Rzewski talks about his piano concerto A Dog’s Life, and a Dutch dinner is shared with a young refugee boy who laughs joyously. Reflecting a childhood in the northern Canadian boreal forest, combined with an adult life lived without borders, Eleonore Schönmaier’s vivid and sensual language invites the reader to fully join in and enjoy the journey.

Unbecoming

Author : Neil Surkan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228010241
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Unbecoming written by Neil Surkan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtler, subtler, beat our hearts / down aisles of cluttered glitz. Unbecoming, Neil Surkan's sophomore collection, clings to hope while the world deteriorates, transforms, and grows less hospitable from moment to moment. Interplaying tenderness with dogged perseverance, these poems tumble through vignettes of degraded landscapes, ebbing spiritual communities, faltering men, and precarious friendships. Yet, in the face of such despair, responsibility and optimism bolster one another – exuberance, amazement, and compassion persist despite the worsening of the wounded Earth. Multifaceted and inventive, this collection of poems vaults from intimation to excoriation, where grief, desire, bewilderment, and protest all crackle and meld. As the world "appears, exceeds, and un- / becomes too quickly for certainty, / just enough for love," the poems in Unbecoming face the horizon with wary eyes and refuse to turn away.

A Different Wolf

Author : Deborah-Anne Tunney
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228003164
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis A Different Wolf by : Deborah-Anne Tunney

Download or read book A Different Wolf written by Deborah-Anne Tunney and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her debut poetry collection, Deborah-Anne Tunney delves into the life and work of one of the twentieth century's most influential film directors, Alfred Hitchcock. Just as Hitchcock's work looks unflinchingly at some of the darkest elements of human nature, A Different Wolf turns a lens on the director himself, revealing the interplay between the social mores of his time and Hitchcock's distinctive psychological makeup. A Different Wolf views the iconic director's cinematic masterpieces through the optics of the poet's personal quest for meaning. Tunney reveals how guilt and innocence, universal and timeless subjects, work to define character and motivate plot. Other poems illustrate Hitchcock's presentation of women as a sign of his fixations, but also as a product of his era. His desire to expose the qualities of time - how film can slow it down or speed it up, qualities he considered filmmaking's most important tool - points to the deep resonance of his work. Providing a sharp-eyed analysis of Hitchcock's life and art, A Different Wolf offers a unique take on the filmmaker's enduring relevance.

whereabouts

Author : Edward Carson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228007178
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book whereabouts written by Edward Carson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: in the poem / of the world / there once / was a map / of the map / composed in / the likeness / of a poem In this riddling and seeking book of poems, Edward Carson navigates the emotional, often contradictory intelligence of the heart and mind. In three interrelated segments, whereabouts powerfully charts the tight emotional spaces between thinking and language, beauty and perception, love and the polemics of self and other. Taking on cartographic distortions and dynamics of the map metaphor, "thereabouts (or the mapmaker's dilemma)" playfully confronts the quandaries of personal navigation when the wants and needs of the esemplastic mind are forever devising new places to be. Exploring the brain, its neurons, and serpentine synaptic connections, "hereabouts (in fourteen scans)" advances a poetry of rhizomic communication capturing networks of thought and feeling that spring from both conflict and caress. Within a relationship's countless masquerades and revelations, "whereabouts (the lovers' discourse)" invites the reader to eavesdrop on a series of intimate conversations wherein lovers argue and act out their richly populated inner lives, addressing issues of gender, pleasure, communication, control, and sex.

Unbound

Author : Gabrielle McIntire
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228007542
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis Unbound by : Gabrielle McIntire

Download or read book Unbound written by Gabrielle McIntire and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: inside sadness is glory / if you see it right way round, / find the seam, reverse it to perspectivize, / unwind light, joy's unravelling spool Inspired by mystical traditions, birdwatching, tree planting, ethics, neuropsychology, and quantum physics, Gabrielle McIntire's poems draw us in with their passionate attention to what it means to be human in a still-wondrous natural environment. Touching on human frailty, the eternal, and the ecological with a delicate and evocative brush, Unbound enacts an almost prayerful attentiveness to the earth's creatures and landscapes while it offers both mournful and humorous treatments of love and loss. McIntire's finely tuned musical voice – with its incantatory rhythms, rhymes, sound play, and entrancing double meanings – invites us to be courageously open to the unexpected. Unbound stirs us to re-evaluate our place amidst the astonishing beauty and wisdom of an Earth facing the early stages of climate change.

The Danger Model

Author : Madelaine Caritas Longman
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228000246
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis The Danger Model by : Madelaine Caritas Longman

Download or read book The Danger Model written by Madelaine Caritas Longman and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is poet's poetry, written with keen attention to inner harmonies and the see-saw of words. In an era of Instagram-driven micro-poetry, aka 'Like Poems,' all flimsy and whimsy, The Danger Model is an actual book crammed with actual poems. A vivid, fearless re-visiting of beloved free verse tropes, from dense, manic prose poems to singing, call-and-response, otherworldly hymns. A generous book, The Danger Model hardly feels like a first book. Rather the opposite – a collected works by a senior poet." Quebec Writers' Federation Concordia University First Book Prize jury

Grotesque Tenderness

Author : Daniel Cowper
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773557717
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis Grotesque Tenderness by : Daniel Cowper

Download or read book Grotesque Tenderness written by Daniel Cowper and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afraid to be alone / we met by lamplight, trading stories: // Sin of Man was one, // Age of Science, another. More // prayers than answers. Daniel Cowper's debut poetry collection, Grotesque Tenderness, speaks for an unrooted age, for unrooted people. In these poems, city-dwellers long to ally themselves with some sympathetic culture or the evolutionary logic of nature, but those alliances remain conditional, ambiguous, or dangerous. A tsunami smashes a harbour city into “tide-rows of burning debris”; children chase snakes in summer meadows. The primordial past spins off “rogue by-products and flawed replicas,” while lonely office workers get high on back porches and drink themselves to sleep. The musical and kinetic energy of Grotesque Tenderness is driven by our urge to understand pain and our hunger to reach an imperfect reconciliation with the problems of guilt and suffering. But in the tradition of William Blake, these poems affirm again and again that “the lit / world goes on living” and life justifies itself through its own workings. From elegant lyrics of alienation and heartbreak to long-form mythopoeia and lament, these poems approach beauty, ugliness, even criminality in a spirit of wonder and vulnerability.

Vlarf

Author : Jason Camlot
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228009286
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Vlarf written by Jason Camlot and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holmes entered the cabinet / of the respectable reverend / (who was in fact a closet naturalist) / and found so many Victorian things. In the early 2000s flarf poetry emerged as an avant-garde movement that generated disturbing and amusing texts from the results of odd internet searches. In Vlarf Jason Camlot plumbs the canon of Victorian literature, as one would search the internet, to fashion strange, sad, and funny forms and feelings in poetry. Vlarf pursues expressions of sentiment that may have become unfamiliar, unacceptable, or uncool since the advent of modernism by mining Victorian texts and generic forms with odd inclinations, using techniques that include erasure, bout-rimé, emulation, adaptation, reboot, mimicry, abhorrence, cringe, and love. Erasures of massive volumes of prose by John Stuart Mill and John Ruskin become concise poems of condensed sadness; a reboot of Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” is told from the perspective of a ten-year-old boy with an imaginary albatross pal; recovered fragments from an apocryphal book of Victorian nonsense verse are pieced together; a Leonard Cohen song about Queen Victoria is offered in a steampunk rendering; and a meditative guinea pig delivers a dramatic monologue in the vein of Robert Browning. Camlot moves through Victorian literature as a collector in a curiosity shop, seeking the oddest forms of feeling in language to shape them into peculiarly affective poems.

rushes from the river disappointment

Author : stephanie roberts
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228003024
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis rushes from the river disappointment by : stephanie roberts

Download or read book rushes from the river disappointment written by stephanie roberts and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "those of us who've seen miracles know how to ask. / if you've asked, do you love me, i almost certainly / don't love you." This meditative, musically attentive collection explores the confounding nature of intimate relationships. stephanie roberts's poetic expression is often irreverent, unapologetic, and infused with humour that can take surprisingly grave turns. rushes from the river disappointment traverses city, country, and fantasy using nature as artery through the emotional landscape. As they wrestle to come to terms with the effects of uncertainty and grief on hope and belief, these diverse field notes are interspersed with the fabulous: a polar bear and owl engage in flirtation, a time traveller appears on a lake, an erotic scene takes place on a train, and we confront "people capable of eating popcorn at the movie of your agony." roberts's language is dense with images and sometimes acrobatic. In poems that affirm love and desire as treasures fought for more than just felt, rushes from the river disappointment turns an unblinking gaze on the failures of courage that distance us from love.

unfinishing

Author : Brian Henderson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228012929
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis unfinishing by : Brian Henderson

Download or read book unfinishing written by Brian Henderson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: they come flying out from under your expectations / and once opened it is rain / and thinking a sandbar / always inventing a different script / never where you left it This dream book of kaleidoscopic, holographic, mutagenic poems is haunted by the loops, aporias, and entanglements of time – memory, forgetting, oblivion, fortune telling, eternal (or not) returns, timelessness (however that may manifest), beginnings and endings (if indeed there are such things), and other spectral speculations where the intimate and the outward might exchange places. With imagery both striking and nuanced, and language rich and strange, Brian Henderson encounters a hummingbird, a barred owl, a flood, a trapdoor, a table of contents, an empty rowboat, a nonexistent river, a room made of crystal, a heap of broken furniture, ecocatastrophe, and political debacle in mesmerizing poems that celebrate the strange and vertiginous musics of a kind of memory-ness invoked by the irretrievable. These poems ask how the future can exist in the now, the now in the past. What is a future? How might we recognize one? And although the now may be completely empty, what are the selves we seem to become? In the archeology of now, unfinishing asks who we might have been – and who we might yet be.

On High

Author : Neil Surkan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773555463
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book On High written by Neil Surkan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All songs have skin, / all skin has holes. On High, Neil Surkan's debut collection of poetry, searches for spirits in myriad places. Wondering how, why, and when to act with a conscience, speakers try out steep hikes, strong drugs, and earnest meditations as they attempt to make meaning in a divided and distracting world. Careful and tense, On High balances on all kinds of tightrope-like lines: a trout fisher revels after riding a moose, a buzzed lover speculates about human connection, new condo owners toast from balcony to balcony, a young woman kicks a hornet's nest into her hometown library's erotica/poetry/religion section. Reaching for the sprigs of our shared humanity, Surkan's poems offer courage and compassion in violent times. As the speaker in "The Branch Breaker" muses, "sarcasm won't dissolve our enemies." On High is a book for the contemporary moment.

Little George's first journey

Author : George (little.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Little George's first journey written by George (little.) and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transactions

Author : North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Transactions written by North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ripping down half the trees

Author : Evan J
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228007437
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis Ripping down half the trees by : Evan J

Download or read book Ripping down half the trees written by Evan J and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some poems can live without souls / but mine remain ghastly fools flicking / uncomfortable narratives like / cigarette butts during class change. One out of every twenty students in the adult education classes Evan J teaches in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, dies every year; the surviving students are often afflicted by severe racism, poverty, addictions, and violence. Ripping down half the trees engages with these struggles, offering a catalogue of experiences specific to the remote regions of Canada. Tearing down the façade of Canadian justice and equality to expose the racism, colonialism, sexism, prejudicial capitalism, and ableism at the nation's core, these are poems about cruelty, both the obvious and the ambient. They are unflinching in their sociopolitical criticism, upset by unchanging systemic oppressions, unable to overlook the threat of the author's white skin, unwilling to forget Justin Trudeau in blackface. And while they acknowledge the limits of the author's privileged perspective, they are never willing to let the perpetrating structures of this cruelty go unchecked. But these poems also let stand the shelterwood, the upstanding actions of individuals, the totems of hope. They work as coping strategies, as therapy, as empathy, offering a glimpse of optimism and a space for discourse. These are poems that listen.

Rags of Night in Our Mouths

Author : Margo Wheaton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228013593
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Rags of Night in Our Mouths written by Margo Wheaton and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silence in the belly of the breathing house. Night so deep / it’s reaching through rooms as if searching its pockets. Standing in the midst of her childhood home, Margo Wheaton was struck by two things: the extent of the damage caused by her father’s and stepmother’s alcoholism and the life force that pulsed in the once-vibrant rooms and yard – in the abandoned trees, neglected flowerbeds, and gardens her parents had planted and tended for decades. Radiant, grieving, and intensely musical, Rags of Night in Our Mouths is an exploration of human and environmental states of precarity and vulnerability. In the opening suite, Wheaton draws upon her family’s deep roots in the Tantramar Marsh area and constructs a hallucinatory world of fragility, chaos, and searing natural beauty as she writes her own version of Maritime gothic. Employing a variation of the ghazal, a historically Persian form popularized in Canada by the late New Brunswick–based poet John Thompson, she surveys the ruins of her working-class childhood home, a thriving place now ravaged by generational alcoholism and despair. Directed at first toward an absent beloved – a convention of the ghazal tradition – the focus moves in the second suite to the teeming, non-human world of an endangered saltmarsh on a wild shore of the Northumberland Strait bordering Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. In the book’s closing suite, Wheaton honours a landscape slated to be destroyed and pays homage to “the broken-hearted, the bereaved” who walk the ragged shoreline, struggling to make sense of losses and death. Meditative and beautifully crafted, Rags of Night in Our Mouths calls us to engage passionately with our suffering world.

Look Here Look Away Look Again

Author : Edward Carson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773557660
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis Look Here Look Away Look Again by : Edward Carson

Download or read book Look Here Look Away Look Again written by Edward Carson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: an orientation of thought in thinking how a / thought begins and then travels on to arrive / at another place connected and like-minded // A work of art is never entirely present in itself but rather is always at large in the mind of the viewer. So it is that a painting needs to know the simplest question those viewing it are asking themselves. From the intimate starting point of observer and observed, Carson's seductive, exhilarating new collection turns poetry and paintings, making and representation, language and thought on their heads.

The Night Chorus

Author : Harold Hoefle
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773555927
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis The Night Chorus by : Harold Hoefle

Download or read book The Night Chorus written by Harold Hoefle and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A whistling through teeth. / He shuts his eyes but still sees / the red glow of exit signs. Harold Hoefle's The Night Chorus rises out of forests and country roads, bars and buses, cities and small towns. These locales are the haunts of outsiders ranging from travellers and farmers to a soldier, a drug addict, a refugee, and the murdered. The past clings in these stark, evocative poems, "memory a closet of clothes / that hang from bent wire." In the tradition of songwriters like Gordon Lightfoot and Gord Downie and poets such as Al Purdy, Karen Solie, and David O'Meara, The Night Chorus presents so-called "obscure" lives, where dark and playful humour collides with historic and mythic characters including Ovid and Dante, Odysseus and Desdemona. Using lyric poetry and the ghazal, the prose poem and the elegy, The Night Chorus brims with images as sharp as wild geese scrawling letters against an evening sky and as humble as "pots of plum dumplings and still-warm soup." Bookended by a sequence of lyrics inspired by cross-country road trips, Hoefle references iconic places like Black Dog Road and Seldom Seen and peoples the landscape with imagined characters. Their voices – damaged, rough, intimate – will echo in the reader's mind.