Milton Acorn

Milton Acorn PDF Author: Richard Lemm
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780886293406
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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A biography of one of Canada's leading poets. Traces Acorn's roots in Prince Edward Island and shows that family, landscape, and the troubled shades of postcolonial society were continuous spurs to his creative life. Connects his self-perpetuated image as a working-class rebel, and his peculiar brand of communism, to his employment history and experience of war. His troubled relationships with family and friends, and his ill health, are explored as sources both of pain and inspiration. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Milton Acorn

Milton Acorn PDF Author: Richard Lemm
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780886293406
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Book Description
A biography of one of Canada's leading poets. Traces Acorn's roots in Prince Edward Island and shows that family, landscape, and the troubled shades of postcolonial society were continuous spurs to his creative life. Connects his self-perpetuated image as a working-class rebel, and his peculiar brand of communism, to his employment history and experience of war. His troubled relationships with family and friends, and his ill health, are explored as sources both of pain and inspiration. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Out of this World

Out of this World PDF Author: Christopher Gudgeon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Out of this World is a lively biography of Canada's "People's Poet," Milton Acorn, exploring – and exposing – his larger-than-life myths, and tracing his tragic rise and fall: from his youth in Charlottetown, to Montréal in the late '50s, to Toronto and Vancouver in the '60s. His poetry was at once political and personal, informed by both Marxist dogma and intimate experience; his voice unique among Canadian poets. For better or worse, Acorn fearlessly and recklessly embraced life as only he could. A man of great myth, and the subject of much speculation, Acorn died having established himself as one of Canada's most celebrated and popular poets.

Dig Up My Heart

Dig Up My Heart PDF Author: Milton Acorn
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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I Want to Tell You Love

I Want to Tell You Love PDF Author: Bill Bissett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781773852317
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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"Published in its intended form for the first time, I Want to Tell You Love is a remarkable collaboration from bill bissett and Milton Acorn that captures the spirit of the sixties. bill bissett and Milton Acorn are two of Canada's most significant, and most controversial, literary figures. In the 1960s, bissett's renown as an experimental poet was growing as his social and political concerns were stirred by the voice of the counterculture. Acorn, inspired by socialist theory and imagism, was building his reputation as a poet on the margin who ran against the grain of the literary establishment. Both were rising towards cultural prominence--one, a true beatnik and the other, a certifiably rugged lyric poet. In 1965 they came together in a remarkable collaboration, a challenge to the established literary tradition and a call for a better world. Published for the very first time, I Want to Tell You Love is the combination of bissett and Acorn's seemingly incongruous poetics to confront the turbulent and swiftly changing world of the 1960s. A collection of poems and illustrations, it is a window into the lives and motivations of two soon-to-be-canonized cultural figures. I Want to Tell You Love is a work of friendship, a shared vision of resistance, and a mutual longing for a better world. This critical edition offers the manuscript in its intended form alongside contextualizing scholarship in a significant contribution to literary history. I Want to Tell You Love offers an opportunity to reevaluate the nature and scope of Canadian poetry during a critical time of national cultural awakening."--

Poems for People

Poems for People PDF Author: Dorothy Livesay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canadian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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The Island Means Minago

The Island Means Minago PDF Author: Milton Acorn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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More Poems for People

More Poems for People PDF Author: Milton Acorn
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9780919600102
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Known as The Peoples Poet, Acorn won the Canadian Poetry Prize in 1970 and the Governor Generals Award in 1975.

I Shout Love and Other Poems

I Shout Love and Other Poems PDF Author: Milton Acorn
Publisher: Mercury Press (Canada)
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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I Shout Love and Other Poems collects, for the first time, all of the poems from Milton Acorn’s first three small publications. Also included are the initial (1958) and final (1970) versions of his well-known performance piece, ’I Shout Love,’ never before available to the public.

Milton Acorn

Milton Acorn PDF Author: Kent Martin
Publisher: Roseway Publishing
ISBN: 9781552667262
Category : Canadian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Includes 1 DVD in sleeve of book. The DVD includes the documentary film, Milton Acorn: the people's poet, made by Errol Sharpe and Kent Martin in 1971 and nineteen live and studio recordings of Milton's readings and stage performances of poems from I've tasted my blood.

Jackpine Sonnets

Jackpine Sonnets PDF Author: Milton Acorn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780887910074
Category : Canadian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 109

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