The Poetry of Louis Dudek

The Poetry of Louis Dudek PDF Author: Louis Dudek
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 0919614825
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Louis Dudek has assembled this collection of the poems that complement his writings as a long-term interpreter of the poetic process and a critic of letters in Canada.

The Poetry of Louis Dudek

The Poetry of Louis Dudek PDF Author: Louis Dudek
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 0919614825
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Book Description
Louis Dudek has assembled this collection of the poems that complement his writings as a long-term interpreter of the poetic process and a critic of letters in Canada.

All These Roads

All These Roads PDF Author: Louis Dudek
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554580390
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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A passionate believer in the power of art—and especially poetry—to influence and critique contemporary culture, Louis Dudek devoted much of his life to shaping the Canadian literary scene through his meditative and experimental poems as well as his work in publishing and teaching. All These Roads: The Poetry of Louis Dudek brings together thirty-five of Dudek’s poems written over the course of his sixty-year career. Much of Dudek’s poetry is about the practice of art, with comment on the way the craft of poetry is mediated by such factors as university classes, public readings, reviews, commercial presses, and academic conferences. The poems in this selection—witty satires, short lyrics, and long sequences—reflect self-consciously on the relationship between art and life and will draw readers into the dramatic mid-century literary and cultural debates in which Dudek was an important participant. Karis Shearer’s introduction provides an overview of Dudek’s prolific career as poet, professor, editor, publisher, and critic, and considers the ways in which Dudek’s functional poems help, both formally and thematically, to carry out the tasks associated with those roles. Comparing Dudek’s reception to that of NourbeSe Philip, Marilyn Dumont, and Roy Miki, Frank Davey’s afterword locates Dudek in a pre-1980s version of multiculturalism that is more complex than many critics would have it. According to Davey, Dudek broadened the limits on the possible range and type of poetry for subsequent generations of Canadian writers.

Europe

Europe PDF Author: Louis Dudek
Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN: 9780889841154
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Europe is the poetic journal of Louis Dudek's cultural pilgrimage to the famous buildings and fabled sites of Europe. Although the sections of the poem are arranged chronologically in the order of his journeyings, the poem is less the story of Dudek's travels than a series of moral and aesthetic meditations prompted by his experiences. Expecting to find in Europe culture in its most evolved forms, the poet is confronted instead by materialism and superficiality, by exhausted peoples who are the unworthy inheritors of past greatness. Eventually the poet comes to realize that it is the sea, `constant always in beauty, ' that is the real object of his quest.

The Last Happy Year

The Last Happy Year PDF Author: Rod Coneybeare
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9780888821546
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1264

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The Last Happy Year: A Novel by Rod Coneybeare

The Montreal Forties

The Montreal Forties PDF Author: Brian Trehearne
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802044525
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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During WWII, a number of Canadian poets converged on Montreal and rewrote the story of modern English-Canadian poetry. The book discusses the four major English-Canadian poets to emerge in the 40s; PK Page, AM Klein, Irving Layton and Louis Dudek.

Selected Essays and Criticism

Selected Essays and Criticism PDF Author: Louis Dudek
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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The Fire

The Fire PDF Author: Robin Blaser
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520938852
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Spanning four decades of meditation on the avant-garde in poetry, art, and philosophy, the essays collected in The Fire reveal Robin Blaser's strikingly fresh perspective on "New American" poets, deconstructive philosophies, current events, and the state of humanities now. The essays, gathered in one volume for the first time, include commentaries on Jack Spicer, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Mary Butts, George Bowering, Louis Dudek, Christos Dikeakos, and J. S. Bach. Blaser emerged from the "Berkeley Renaissance" of the 1940s and 1950s having studied under legendary medieval scholar Ernst Kantorowicz and having been a major participant in the burgeoning literary scene. His response to the cultural and political events of his time has been to construct a poetic voice that offers a singular perspective on a shareable world—and to pose that voice alongside others as a source of countermemory and potential agency. Conceived as conversations, these essays brilliantly reflect that ethos as they re-read the cultural events of the past fifty years.

The Narrow Path

The Narrow Path PDF Author: Francis Selormey
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN: 9780435121938
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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A Lover's Quarrel

A Lover's Quarrel PDF Author: Carmine Starnino
Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN: 9780889842410
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Already an award-winning poet, Carmine Starnino has also made his mark as a literary critic of great pluck, probity and irreverence. His highly regarded, often highly controversial writings on poetry have enlivened -- and often enraged -- the Canadian literary scene since they first began appearing in the late 1990s. He has tackled the careers of some of this country's most notable poets (among them Irving Layton, Michael Ondaatje, Anne Carson, Tim Lilburn, Susan Musgrave, Christopher Dewdney) and done so in prose of great subtlety and style. Indeed, in Starnino's literary criticism seditiousness and insight are made to live inside sentences that always square their shoulders and draw themselves to their full verbal height. A Lover's Quarrel culls some of the highlights of Starnino's dissenting exploits, and includes the never-before-published title essay, an ambitious reassessment of Canadian poetry. For readers unfamiliar with Starnino's criticism, the release of A Lover's Quarrel furnishes the perfect opportunity to read one of the few critics in Canada who can speak his mind and speak it well.

Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English

Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English PDF Author: Eugene Benson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134468474
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 2713

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Post-Colonial Literatures in English, together with English Literature and American Literature, form one of the three major groupings of literature in English, and, as such, are widely studied around the world. Their significance derives from the richness and variety of experience which they reflect. In three volumes, this Encyclopedia documents the history and development of this body of work and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.