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Chamber Music
Zwicky, Jan. Ed(S): Bifford, Darren; Heiti, Warren
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Paperback. Editor(s): Bifford, Darren; Heiti, Warren. Num Pages: 102 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 162.
Arcing across thirty years and seven volumes, Jan Zwicky's poetry has always been acutely musical (and sensitive to the silence out of which music comes). In the compositions in Chamber Music, the first anthology of Zwicky's poems, one may perceive the attunement of her vocations: poet, philosopher, violinist. Her poetry both praises and relinquishes the earth, bearing witness to the fierce skies of the prairies and the freezing rain of the West Coast. Enacting the virtue of clarity prized and defended by her explicitly philosophical work, this poetry is both resonant and integrated. It is also formally diverse, ranging from ... Read more
Arcing across thirty years and seven volumes, Jan Zwicky's poetry has always been acutely musical (and sensitive to the silence out of which music comes). In the compositions in Chamber Music, the first anthology of Zwicky's poems, one may perceive the attunement of her vocations: poet, philosopher, violinist. Her poetry both praises and relinquishes the earth, bearing witness to the fierce skies of the prairies and the freezing rain of the West Coast. Enacting the virtue of clarity prized and defended by her explicitly philosophical work, this poetry is both resonant and integrated. It is also formally diverse, ranging from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
102
Condition
New
Number of Pages
102
Place of Publication
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
ISBN
9781771120913
SKU
V9781771120913
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About Zwicky, Jan. Ed(S): Bifford, Darren; Heiti, Warren
Jan Zwicky's books of poetry include Songs for Relinquishing the Earth, which won the Governor General's Award, Robinson's Crossing, which won the Dorothy Livesay Prize, and, most recently Forge, which was short-listed for the Griffin Prize. Her books of philosophy include Wisdom & Metaphor, Lyric Philosophy, and Alkibiades' Love (forthcoming 2015). Darren Bifford is the author of Wedding ... Read more
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