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| Title: abecedarium |
| By (author): Dennis Cooley |
| ISBN10-13: 0888646453 : 9780888646453 |
| would you believe me when i make consorts of alphabet runaways & stayathomes i have rounded up where they wandered all over the page Dennis Cooley masterfully extends the genre of the abecedary to explore his curiosity of the limitlessness of human communication. With linguistic wit and complexity, his poetry carries the reader through the historical developments of the alphabet. He pries open letters and words to play with both their immediate meaning and the possibilities within the words themselves, creating surprises as he explores spelling, sound, syntax, and pronunciation. After reading Cooley's abecedarium you'll never look at language the same way. Lovers of experimental poetry as well as those interested in linguistic play or the history of language will relish the rapid-fire shifts and musicality of Cooley's newest collection of poetry. |
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“Writing his way down to basic elements, Cooley writes through the development of language and writing, various ancient histories, books and writers he has read and admired over the years and prairie landscapes, blending them together in an abecedarium that works to explore the very idea of communication: written, spoken and archival
. This is Cooley at smart and serious joyful play, pure and simple, bringing the weight of years of reading, listening, research and knowledge to every motion.” http://www.robmclennan.blogspot.ca/2014/05/dennis-cooley-abecedarium.html, accessed May 26, 2014
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"Winnipeg poet, editor and critic Dennis Cooley's new poetry collection, abecedarium is an expansive play of puns and train-of-thought sound play constructed through an exploration of a variety of subjects, including the history of the alphabet, references to the works of writers such as Robert Kroetsch, George Bowering and Andrew Suknaski, prairie histories, crows and what the ear hears, and poems that simply appear to propel narratively through and against the sounds of the words themselves.... This is Cooley at smart and serious joyful play, pure and simple, bringing the weight of years of reading, listening, research and knowledge to every motion." -- rob mclennan's -- http://www.dusie.blogspot.ca/2015/01/a-best-of-list-of-2014-canadian-poetry.html, 20150106
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"All writers love language--it's a basic job requirement--but few writers adore the alphabet as much as Winnipeg experimental poet Dennis Cooley.... abecedarium is a convincing challenge to the notion that poetry must be 'difficult' or unpleasant to be relevant. Rather, embracing all that is playful and fun about language, Cooley shows that such poetry can be at its most incisive." -- Jay Smith -- Alberta Views, 20150115
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"Cooley’s latest collection invites us down to, and then past, the level of alphabet to shred and rebuild meaning from the smallest elements of language. He often does so using humour, sometimes through poetic-historical essays on pivotal moments in the evolution of language and script, and always with a sense of adventure.... In abecedarium, he continues to discuss language in an engaging and exciting way.... He brilliantly conveys and samples these elements—from miniscule, single sounds to sweeping philosophies of language—that together lead to the varied sound and shared meanings that keep language interesting, and that make it work.... To Cooley’s great credit, he adeptly plays to the linguistic elite while still offering something deeply interesting, thought-provoking and even fun to readers less interested in the backstory than the reward." Anita Dolman, ARC Poetry Magazine, accessed May 21, 2015
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# 4 on the Winnipeg Bestsellers list (Paperback Fiction) for the week of June 8, 2014
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"In recalling its titular genre's function as exercise book and devotional text, abecedarium at once invokes conceptual writing and remains anchored in the prairie language poetry tradition in which Cooley has been at home for decades." Canadian Literature 226 (Autumn 2015) [Full review at: https://canlit.ca/article/questionable-concepts/] -- Carl Watts -- Literature 226, 20150910
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Pages: 160
Size: 228x152x10mm
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| Published: University of Alberta Press - March 2014 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry : Poetry by individual poets : Conservation of the environment : History of sport |
| List Price: 16.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: All True Things |
| Sub-title: A History of the University of Alberta, 1908-2008 |
| By (author): Rod Macleod |
| ISBN10-13: 0888644442 : 9780888644442 |
| BACK COVER de cetero.quaecumque.haec cogitate. For the rest.whatsoever things are true.think on these things. -The Epistle of St. Paul to the Philippians, 4:8. All True Things is a critical history of the genesis and evolution of the University of Alberta to mark the University's centennial. Rod Macleod relates the University's coming of age against the parallel history of the Province of Alberta's remarkable growth. What emerges is an enduring narrative of an institutional will to thrive and become a vibrant centre of learning. As the University embarks on its second century, this definitive source of information and reflection on institutional history and governance will inspire future leaders and policy makers and reach out to the University of Alberta's many friends and alumni. "Professor Macleod was an inspired choice as author for this project." -Professor Kenneth Harold Norrie Faculty of Social Science, McMaster University FRONT FLAP Milestones Along the Way Decima Robinson was one of seven women in the University's very first class, and she was the very first student to graduate. The Faculty of Extension emerged from the University of Alberta's early outreach efforts of sending faculty on lecture tours to towns throughout the province. During World War I, founding president Henry Marshall Tory headed to France (becoming Colonel Tory) in order to spearhead the "Khaki University of Canada," a massive initiative to extend provisional education to military personnel serving overseas. Dr. J. B. Collip-University of Alberta biochemistry professor-was a major research contributor to Banting and Best's breakthrough insulin therapy for treatment of diabetes. By the 1920s, while working for what would eventually become the Alberta Research Council, Dr. Karl Clark had already developed the technology for separating heavy oil from Alberta's rich deposits of oilsands. University of Alberta alumnus George F. Stanley (BA '29), who led an exemplary career as a pre-eminent historian and who became Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, provided the design for the Canadian flag in the 1960s. CKUA radio, Canada's oldest running independent radio station, began as a campus radio station in the 1920s, introducing listeners to live musical performances, sports coverage, and even lectures as an innovative component of President Tory's vision of community engagement. The seeds of the internationally renowned Banff Centre-a learning facility for the Arts, Mountain Culture, and Leadership-were planted when E.A. Corbett initiated an "Experimental School in the Arts Related to the Theatre" in the summer of 1933. Former Prime Minister Joe Clark,' 60 BA, '73 MA, '85 LLD (Honorary), was editor of the student's newspaper, The Gateway, in 1959-60. BACK FLAP About the Author Rod Macleod was professor of History and Classics at the University of Alberta from 1969 until he retired in 2005. He has written extensively on the history of Western Canada as well as Canadian legal and military history. He is currently the Alberta representative on the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. He lives in Edmonton. |
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"This book is a critical history of the university. In it my concern has been to understand how it differed from other universities and why it evolved the way it did. In doing the research and writing it became apparent that the history of the university was entwined with the political history of the province. For the first half century it completely dominated the intellectual and cultural history of Alberta. From its inception the university has had a powerful sense of mission, summed best in founding president Henry Marshall Tory's dictum 'the uplifting of the whole people shall be its final goal.' The university's remarkable extension activities led to the founding of CKUA radio and the Banff Centre." Rod Macleod, April 2008
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"Loyal alumni can choose from a handful of tomes honouring the University of Alberta on this, its 100th anniversary year. All True Things places the U of A in the larger context of our province's history, revealing a dynamic learning centre influenced by a diverse and fast-growing population." Edmonton Journal, Christmas Gift Guide, November 19, 2008
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"In the early years of the province's history, the location of the yet-to-be-built University of Alberta was one of the most hotly contested issues of the day. ... The controversy surrounding the U of A's location is one of the pivotal moments discussed in Macleod's new book All True Things, which traces the evolution of the university from a fledgling Prairie school to one of Canada's most powerful academic institutions. ... "I wanted this (book) to be a real history, not a public relations exercise ... I wanted to look in a serious way at how the institution developed, how was it different from other Canadian universities and what were the down parts of the experience as well as the ups." Macleod thinks much of the U of A's success can be traced back to the first president, Henry Marshall Tory, who laid out an ambitious vision that essentially remains intact today. ... For example, female students were admitted from Day 1, and Tory insisted the first faculty be arts and science rather than an agricultural school many in the province wanted. In hiring the first group of professors, he demanded they all have PhDs and went as far as Harvard and McGill to recruit them." Keith Gerein, Edmonton Journal, Sept. 17, 2008
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"... a terrific little institutional history..." -- Alex Usher, The Higher Ed Reading List -- 20191212
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Pages: 392
Size: 254x177x29mm
Illustrations: 130+ b/w photos
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| Published: University of Alberta Press - September 2008 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: History of the Americas : Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 : Schools : Canada |
| List Price: 42.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: All under Heaven |
| Sub-title: The Chinese World in Maps, Pictures, and Texts from the Collection of Floyd Sully |
| By (author): Walter Davis |
| ISBN10-13: 155195320X : 9781551953205 |
| Floyd Sully, a Canadian collector fascinated by practical yet beautiful representations of China, laboured over 15 years to assemble this beautiful collection focused on maps, documentary paintings, and illustrated texts. It features works produced inside China and abroad that were created for both Chinese and Western viewers. This publication explores important dimensions of Chinese visual culture and offers a diverse and telling set of perspectives on the Chinese world as it underwent a process of profound transformation spanning five centuries of artistic production through to modern times. |
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American Library Association, Leab Exhibition Award
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"Dealing with a highly original topic, this catalog showcases original materials rarely seen in a library and museum setting: 16th to 18th century Chinese manuscripts, and hand-colored woodblock prints," said Cherry Williams, chair of the RBMS Exhibition Awards committee and curator of manuscripts at Indiana University. "Its rich information content, with extensive, well-written notes composed by curator Walter Davis, has intellectual depth and constitutes a contribution to scholarship on the subject of early Chinese history and culture. In addition, the curators narrowed the choices well, resulting in a spectacular choice of items; each item is unusual, visually interesting and stunning in appearance." -- Jury comments, 2014 Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab -- "American Book Prices Current" Exhibition Awards, 20141001
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Pages: 128
Size: 304x317x9mm
Illustrations: b/w illus, tables & maps
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| Published: University of Alberta Press - July 2013 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: Photographs: collections : Asian history : Cartography, map-making & projections : China |
| List Price: 61.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
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| Title: All under Heaven |
| Sub-title: The Chinese World in Maps, Pictures, and Texts from the Collection of Floyd Sully |
| By (author): Walter Davis |
| ISBN10-13: 1551953196 : 9781551953199 |
| Floyd Sully, a Canadian collector fascinated by practical yet beautiful representations of China, laboured over 15 years to assemble this beautiful collection focused on maps, documentary paintings, and illustrated texts. It features works produced inside China and abroad that were created for both Chinese and Western viewers. This publication explores important dimensions of Chinese visual culture and offers a diverse and telling set of perspectives on the Chinese world as it underwent a process of profound transformation spanning five centuries of artistic production through to modern times. |
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American Library Association, Leab Exhibition Award
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"Dealing with a highly original topic, this catalog showcases original materials rarely seen in a library and museum setting: 16th to 18th century Chinese manuscripts, and hand-colored woodblock prints," said Cherry Williams, chair of the RBMS Exhibition Awards committee and curator of manuscripts at Indiana University. "Its rich information content, with extensive, well-written notes composed by curator Walter Davis, has intellectual depth and constitutes a contribution to scholarship on the subject of early Chinese history and culture. In addition, the curators narrowed the choices well, resulting in a spectacular choice of items; each item is unusual, visually interesting and stunning in appearance." -- Jury comments, 2014 Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab -- "American Book Prices Current" Exhibition Awards, 20141001
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Pages: 128
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| Published: University of Alberta Press - July 2013 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Photographs: collections : Asian history : China |
| List Price: 38.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: Annie Muktuk and Other Stories |
| By (author): Norma Dunning |
| ISBN10-13: 1772122971 : 9781772122978 |
| I woke up with Moses Henryâ s boot holding open my jaw and my right eye was looking into his gun barrel. I heard the slow words, â Take. It. Back.â I know one thing about Moses Henry; he means business when he means business. I took it back and for the last eight months I have not uttered Annie Muklukâ s name. In strolls Annie Mukluk in all her mukiness glory. Tonight she has gone traditional. Her long black hair is wrapped in intuâ dlit braids. Only my mom still does that. Sheâ s got mukluks, real mukluks on and sheâ s wearing the old-style caribou parka. It must be something her grandma gave her. No one makes that anymore. Sheâ s got the faint black eyeliner showing off those brown eyes and to top off her face sheâ s put pretend face tattooing on. We all know itâ ll wash out tomorrow. â from "Annie Muktuk" When Sedna feels the urge, she reaches out from the Land of the Dead to where Kakoot waits in hospital to depart from the Land of the Living. What ensues is a struggle for life and death and identity. In â Kakootâ and throughout this audacious collection of short stories, Norma Dunning makes the interplay between contemporary realities and experiences and Inuit cosmology seem deceptively easy. The stories are raucous and funny and resonate with raw honesty. Each eye-opening narrative twist in Annie Muktuk and Other Stories challenges readersâ perceptions of who Inuit people are. |
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| 1 Kabloona Red 7 Elipsee 35 Kakoot 57 Annie Muktuk 65 Manisatuq 73 Qunutuittuq 79 Itsigivaa 81 Iniqtuiguti 85 Inurqituq 89 Tutsiapaa 93 Nakuusiaq 97 Qaninngilivuq 101 Samagiik 105 Husky 131 My Sisters and I |
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INDIE Book of the Year Awards (Short Stories)
2018
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Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize
2018
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Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Story | Writers' Guild of Alberta for "Elipsee"
2018
Canada
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Danuta Gleed Literary Award
2018
Canada
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Awarded By: "The poignant stories in this collection evoke the silent and overt desires, aspirations, successes, failures, and inner lives of its many Inuit characters, including the charismatic Annie Muktuk. The language is invigorating, the tone wry, and the relationships playful and heartbreaking. Dunning crafts a landscape that is at once intimate and mythically vast. Tragedy and humour intertwine in spellbinding narratives that deliver raw emotion and an acute sense of humanity." |
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2018
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"Norma Dunning's debut short story collection is sensitive, intelligent and intense. Right from the first story, 'Kabloona Red,' in which an Inuit women knocks back cheap red wine whenever her white husband is away, Dunning writes about authentic experience. The narrators are first person or closely focused third, so the Inuit characters' confusion and pain as they struggle to maintain individual and cultural identifies are felt directly.... Strong currents of anger and courage propel the Inuit characters. They are survivors.... I loved this book." Candace Fertile, Alberta Views, March 2018
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"When I read the article, 'What inspired her was getting mad,' about the story behind Norma Dunning’s debut collection, Annie Mukluk and Other Stories, I was not surprised. Acts of justice and revenge factor throughout the book, propelling the stories so terrifically. Dunning wrote her stories in response to ethnographic representations of Inuit people that neglected to show them as actual people, and the result is a book that’s really extraordinary. Because her people are so real, people who laugh, and joke, and drink, and have sex (and they have a lot of sex)." Kerry Clare, Pickle Me This, August 2, 2017
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"Dunning’s stories, nuanced and deeply felt, reach deep into the heart of what it means to be Inuit, into the sacred place where the songs of the north are still sung, visions are still seen, and the spirits still speak. From this place, it is possible to laugh at those who come to destroy. From this place, dignity is maintained and the connection to the turning of the seasons is unbroken. Together with grief for what has been lost, there is power and light in these stories." Kristine Morris, Foreword Magazine, June 29, 2017
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"A successful short story takes us to unfamiliar places, and the 16 stories in this collection certainly fill that bill. It’s a journey deep into Inuit life, with tales of Inuk of all shapes, genders and ages. The title story is at turns funny, violent and cunning: Jimmy tries to convince best friend Moses to stay away from the glorious Annie Muktuk, an arnaluk (naughty woman, according to the glossary) who will cause him grief.” - Sarah Murdoch, Toronto Star, November 24, 2017
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"Although [Dunning] deals with serious contemporary realities for Inuit people, she manages to work in moments of humour that flesh out her characters, making them fully realized and complex." -- Matthew Stepanic -- Where.ca, 20170901
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"Jury members praised Dunning for crafting 'spellbinding narratives' centring on Inuit characters that 'deliver raw emotion and an acute sense of humanity.'” Danuta Gleed Award Jurors, June 2018
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# 10 on Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers list, September 24, 2017 -- 20170924
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# 6 on Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers list, October 01, 2017 -- 20171001
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# 10 on Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers list, October 22, 2017 -- 20171022
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Pages: 198
Size: 228x133x12mm
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| Published: University of Alberta Press - June 2017 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) : Short stories |
| List Price: 17.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: Apostrophes II |
| Sub-title: through you I |
| By (author): E.D. Blodgett |
| ISBN10-13: 0888643047 : 9780888643049 |
| Here, in the second volume of a series, E.D. Blodgett extends the meditations of Apostrophes: woman at a piano, which won the Governor General's award for poetry in 1996. An astonishing hybrid of Symboliste vision and Elizabethan form, through you I is a lovely offering from one of Canada's leading writers. |
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AAUP Book, Jacket & Journal Show - Poetry & Literature
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The Alcuin Society Citations for Excellence in Book Design in Canada - Third Prize, Poetry
1998
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"Blodgett shows that he has the courage to go way out on a limb when his poetics demand it.. Apostrophes II contains the finest verse I've read in a long time. In terms of technical excellence and intellectual excitement, I was reminded throughout of Eliot.... every poem stopped me cold with passages of such beauty that I simply had to reread them again and again." James Deahl, CBRA
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Pages: 80
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| Published: University of Alberta Press - January 1998 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 : Literary studies: poetry & poets |
| List Price: 13.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: Apostrophes IV |
| Sub-title: speaking you is holiness |
| By (author): E.D. Blodgett |
| ISBN10-13: 0888643527 : 9780888643520 |
| Governor-General's award-winning poet E.D. Blodgett continues his series of meditations on love, living, and loss. This intelligent collection offers more of Blodgett's lush imagery and deep questioning within the apostrophe form. A lovely offering from one of Canada's leading writers. |
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The Alcuin Society Citations for Excellence in Book Design in Canada - Honourable Mention, Poetry
2001
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2001
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Alberta Book Awards - Book Design of the Year
2001
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"The extraordinary beauty and vitality of Blodgett's poetry breathes world music: "the dance that dances us, of apples, grass and night"." Nancy Clasby, ARC, Canada's National Poetry Magazine
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"To read Blodgett is to dislocate oneself from the world and go floating in the cosmos." Shawna Lemay, Edmonton Journal
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"There's a probing intellect at work beneath the often charming, even hypnotic, surface of these poems.. Blodgett is a master of the shimmering, choral effects language can attain.. Apostrophes IV is another rich and accomplished collection from a highly refined imagination." Harry Vandervlist, Quill & Quire
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"(Apostrophes IV).will reinvent all those favorite memories of summertime bliss."
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| Published: University of Alberta Press - September 2000 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry : Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 : Literary studies: poetry & poets |
| List Price: 14.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: Apostrophes VI |
| Sub-title: open the grass |
| By (author): E.D. Blodgett |
| ISBN10-13: 0888644205 : 9780888644206 |
| In Apostrophes VI, E.D. Blodgett returns to his acclaimed series to invite the reader to open the grass-to open the book of creation and consider its wisdom. In 66 tightly, yet eloquently-often beautifully-structured lyric poems, Blodgett embraces the natural world as one bound to meaning by majesty and wonder. These poems are messages declared to an absence-a dialogue with the missing. Searching not only for an absent "you" but for "the absent place / of everywhere" (Flowered). Searching for "words to find you as you are and not / as I have dreamed you in these fragments" (Fragments). "The subject matter is as old as poetry itself, the formal discipline exemplary; yet this is exquisitely contemporary verse." -Susan Rudy |
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The poem "Spring" is featured in Legacy's spring 2005 issue.
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"I reviewed E.D. Blodgett's An Arc of Koans last year, and have decided that it must speak well of Blodgett's versatility that the poems included in open the grass (both are part of his apostrophes series), are so different in manner. Picture broad, page-wide paragraphs (in a square-format book) threaded with long, sinewy, wistful sentences. The former volume was made up of diminutive riddle poems, evoking impressions more in what they do not say than in what they make explicit. These poems work just as interestingly from the other direction, from the side of prolix extension and operatic accumulation. The thematic furniture is outsize - stars, sky, trees, moon, sea, silence, and of course fields and fields of grass - but they are handled so lightly and dreamily that the poems seem like so many snowglobes with their two or three primary elements falling in a soft flurry of words." Jeffery Donaldson, University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol 75, No.1, Winter 2006
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"Where much of contemporary formally innovative poetry unstructures conventional syntax, these poems seek an ancient, traditional, and highly rhetorical syntax in lengthy compound-complex sentences full of twists and turns of focus and desire..Where much of contemporary formally innovative poetry unstructures conventional syntax, these poems seek an ancient, traditional, and highly rhetorical syntax in lengthy compound-complex sentences full of twists and turns of focus and desire." -- Douglas Barbour, Canadian Book Review Annual, 2005.
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Size: 165x165x5mm
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| Published: University of Alberta Press - September 2004 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry : Poetry by individual poets : Ethnic studies |
| List Price: 16.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: Apostrophes VII |
| Sub-title: Sleep, You, a Tree |
| By (author): E.D. Blodgett |
| ISBN10-13: 0888645546 : 9780888645548 |
| Front Flap: I have always admired E.D. Blodgett's poetry for its intellectual ambition, its refusal to accept the surface of things as their whole story, for its Wallace Stevens-like sensuous engagement with interiority. In Apostrophes VII: Sleep, You, a Tree, Blodgett turns to the impalpable, the richly numinous, not to escape the world, but to make the world more substantial so that it can accommodate all elements of our fullest dwelling, including a hyperbolic span of desire, the swoop of unfettered imagination and our unappeasable loneliness for the innerness of things. This makes his poetry reclamation work, drawing substance and light both into humans and the objects they live among and behold. -Tim Lilburn Back Cover: No one remembers when this dance began, the slow andante in our eyes, their disappearance and return as intimate as breath that we have known since we began to see, the nearest that we think of what we think is infinite. -from "Unknowing" Back Flap: E.D. Blodgett has published numerous books of poetry as well as diverse criticism and literary translations. He is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta. In 1996 he won the Governor General's Award for Poetry for Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano. From 2007 to 2009 he was Edmonton's Poet Laureate. Blodgett lives in Surrey, British Columbia. |
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"The best part is the moment (often a long one) before one begins a poem. It is that state that Keats calls negative capability," and it is a state that simply comes over one and almost dissolves one.' This moment or state leads to a particular sensibility that filters through Blodgett's work. That the world, no matter how brutal and mindless it is tending to be, is a place of incomparable awe." Ariel Gordon, Prairie Books Now Summer 2011
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"[Blodgett's] new collection of unrhymed sonnets, Sleep, You, A Tree, is a long contemplation in seventyeight partswith repeated motifs that include infinity, eternity, silence, unsayability, darkness, whiteness, childhood, paradise, God, moon and starsin which almost every poem includes a tree. Blodgett's weaving of form and content is rare in contemplative poetics.... Blodgett's rhythms, both formal as in traditional sonnets but also relaxed in their line ends and breakup of rhythm, are delicious to the ear. Such poetry is made to read aloud." - BC Bookworld, Autumn 2011
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"Each time [the imagery of these interrelated poems is] transformed into an elegantly satisfying visual music that pulls the consciousness of the willing reader into a fresh perception of the connections among mind, language, and the world." Neil Querengesser, Canadian Literatures 214, Autumn 2012
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Blodgett's weaving of form and content is rare in contemplative poetics.... Blodgett's rhythms, both formal as in traditional sonnets but also relaxed in their line ends and break-up of rhythm, are delicious to the ear. Such poetry is made to read aloud." BC Bookworld
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Pages: 88
Size: 165x165x25mm
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| Published: University of Alberta Press - April 2011 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry : Poetry by individual poets |
| List Price: 16.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: Arborophobia |
| By (author): Nancy Holmes |
| ISBN10-13: 1772126020 : 9781772126020 |
| Arborophobia, the latest collection by award-winning poet Nancy Holmes, is a poetic spiritual reckoning. Its elegies, litanies, and indictments concern wonder, guilt, and grief about the journey of human life and the state of the natural world. When a child attempts suicide and western North America burns and the creep of mortality closes in, is spiritual and emotional solace possible or even desirable? Answers abound in measured, texturally intimate, and often surprising ways. The title sequence, named for a word that means â hatred of trees,â sassily blurs the boundaries between human beings and Ponderosa pines, reminding us how fragile our conceptual frameworks really are. Another sequence responds to Julian of Norwichâ s writing and call â to practise the art / of letting things happen.â Saintsâ lives interlace with our quotidian experience, smudging connections between the spiritual and the earthly. Taking a hard look at what we have done to this beautiful planet and to those we love, Arborophobia is a companion for all who grapple with the problem of hope in times of crisis. |
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| Orb; The Tribes of Grass; The Milk Chute, an Ode; Spring Shave; Lunolio; Anemone in Cyprus; Saint Lucy; Newborn II Arborophobia; Ponderosa Pine; Gotcha; II. Qualms; III Stain; Early Spring Elegy; Mother Julian Imagines One Drop of Christ's Blood As the Scale of a Herring; Being Upright; The Time Being; Saint Veronica; WTF--The Anthropocene?; The Animals in That Backyard; Before the Flood; Dementia, the Queen; Meat; Pitted; Saint Ursula IV Julian; A Cloth in the Wind, or Being with Julian of Norwich Contents V Path; Saint Cainnech; Ways and Means; How I Came Back to the Morning; The Way We Are Made Of; Paths Taken; Notes; Acknowledgements. |
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"Arborophobia, the latest collection by award-winning poet Nancy Holmes, is a poetic spiritual reckoning. Its elegies, litanies, and indictments concern wonder, guilt, and grief about the journey of human life and the state of the natural world." -- 49th Shelf, 28 February 2022
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#8 on the Calgary Herald Non-fiction bestsellers list, May 2, 2022
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Pages: 104
Size: 230x135mm
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| Published: University of Alberta Press - March 2022 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry |
| List Price: 15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 6 |
| Title: 10 of: 661 |
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