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CHAMBER MUSIC
THE POETRY OF JAN ZWICKY |
| By: |
Jan Zwicky, Darren Bifford (Editor), Warren Heiti (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£16.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1771120916 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781771120913 |
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| Publisher: |
WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
11 December, 2014 |
| Pages: |
102 |
| Description: |
Anthology of poems by Jan Zwicky, with an introduction by Darren Bifford and Warren Heiti that situates Zwicky's poetry within her philosophical work. The afterword consists of an interview with the poet that expands on the themes of her poetry in a more personal way. |
| Synopsis: |
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 the singular focus of the lyric ode to suites of variations and fugal structures, from polyphonic textures to the sprawling reach of narrative gestures. Throughout, one feels the deft hand of an adept using powerful metaphors to explore themes of colonial violence, environmental devastation, spiritual catastrophe, and transformation. Resisting Western philosophy's exclusion of imagination from civic life, Zwicky's poetry is noteworthy for the tension it achieves between the abstract and the personal, the general and the particular.Meditating repeatedly on themes of love and grief, this poetry is at once passionately committed to the lucidity of its utterances and the fidelity of its images. |
| Publication: |
Canada |
| Imprint: |
Wilfrid Laurier University Press |
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