I Nadja And Other Poems

Author : Susan Elmslie,Sue Elmslie
Publisher : London, Ont. : Brick Books
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1894078535

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I, Nadja, and Other Poems by Susan Elmslie,Sue Elmslie Pdf

Poems that reach towards the lost or the might have been. In her debut collection, Susan Elmslie delves into the life and mental illness of the real person behind Andr Bretons surrealist romance, Nadja, recovering the story of a flesh and blood woman who became a symbol for the unknowability of the feminine and the irrational side of the human psyche. Ultimately, I, Nadjais about many women as Elmslie?s lyrically astute, confident lines move into the daily world of motherhood, adolescent memories and heroines like Marie Curie and George Sand. With her great fury of a voice, Elmslie?s poems are forthright and daring, fearlessly rhapsodic, as "they sing/your shape through doorways,? sing/the whole house awake." I can get perfect distance between us?maybe language is what washes the sheets eventually, snapping on the line, telling us how neat things must be. Like irony: a man spent eighteen years building a plane, only to have it crash on its maiden flight, killing him completely. Some throw themselves in to the role of the timeless lover, believing only in their own ability to endure, endure, and prepare for that chance meeting at an airport bar. You look at me and I know I have blown my cover. When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever. from "Four Postcards" "What range and abundance! A catalogue of trench coats, a daughters first hunger, the stories of George Sand, Marie Curie, and, of course, Breton?s love, the unforgettable, unknowable Nadja. Each of these poems is fully felt, finely formed, astonishingly different from the next. Susan Elmslie compels you to linger with admiration?but also to keep turning the pages, breathless for the next discovery." ? Stephanie Bolster "If for no other reason, buy this book for the 'I, Nadja' poems. They are brilliant. But there is another reason?the book itself?all of it." ? P.K. Page Susan Elmslie?s poetry has appeared in several Canadian journals, anthologies, and in a prize-winning chapbook, When Your Body Takes to Trembling (Cranberry Tree). She received a PhD in English with a specialization in Canadian literature from McGill University, and has been a poetry Fellow at Hawthornden Castle in Scotland. She lives in Montreal.

Author : Sue Elmslie,Susan Elmslie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 177131298X

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I, Nadja, and Other Poems by Sue Elmslie,Susan Elmslie Pdf

In her debut collection, Susan Elmslie delves into the life and mental illness of the real person behind Andre Breton's surrealist romance, Nadja, recovering the story of a flesh and blood woman who became a symbol for the unknowability of the feminine and the irrational side of the human psyche. Ultimately, I, Nadja is about many women as Elmslie's lyrically astute, confident lines move into the daily world of motherhood, adolescent memories and heroines like Marie Curie and George Sand. With her great fury of a voice, Elmslie's poems are forthright and daring, fearlessly rhapsodic, as "they sing/your shape through doorways,... sing/the whole house awake

Author : Elmslie Susan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1771312971

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I, Nadja, and Other Poems by Elmslie Susan Pdf

Author : André Breton
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802150268

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Nadja by André Breton Pdf

"Nadja, " originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance ever written, a book which defined that movement's attitude toward everyday life. The principal narrative is an account of the author's relationship with a girl in teh city of Paris, the story of an obsessional presence haunting his life. The first-person narrative is supplemented by forty-four photographs which form an integral part of the work -- pictures of various "surreal" people, places, and objects which the author visits or is haunted by in naja's presence and which inspire him to mediate on their reality or lack of it. "The Nadja of the book is a girl, but, like Bertrand Russell's definition of electricity as "not so much a thing as a way things happen, " Nadja is not so much a person as the way she makes people behave. She has been described as a state of mind, a feeling about reality, k a kind of vision, and the reader sometimes wonders whether she exists at all. yet it is Nadja who gives form and structure to the novel.

Author : Randall Maggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Canadian poetry
ISBN : 1771314966

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Night Work by Randall Maggs Pdf

Author : Nadia C Prevo
Publisher : Nadia Carsetta Prevo
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0595422462

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Nadia's Book of Poems by Nadia C Prevo Pdf

If you want to have some laughs and maybe even cry or just a tear jerker then you should read this book at it's entirety because I'll promise you it will tug at your heart one minute and have you crying the next, and even make you at least smile if not laugh. I hope you have just as much fun reading it as I have had writing it. Thank you to all of my readers.

Author : Louisa Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1909643424

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Nadja by Louisa Green Pdf

Author : Nadia Colburn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1944585362

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The High Shelf by Nadia Colburn Pdf

Poetry. Women's Studies. This masterful debut reveals for each reader new depths of nature, self, family, and world by opening our tiniest and most intimate perceptions. Colburn's poetics balances image with absence, silence with sound. These elegant poems take on the questions of our day: can we have our sweet domestic lives when the life of the planet hangs in the balance? What does it mean to create and nurture a new human being in this perilous age?

Author : Nadja Spiegelman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101627754

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I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This by Nadja Spiegelman Pdf

A Vogue Best Book of the Year "What Ferrante did for female friends—exploring the tumult and complexity their relationships could hold—Spiegelman sets out to do for mothers and daughters. She’s essentially written My Brilliant Mom." —Slate A memoir of mothers and daughters—and mothers as daughters—traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again. For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy. More than her famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and even more than most mothers, hers—French-born New Yorker art director Françoise Mouly—exerted a force over reality that was both dazzling and daunting. As Nadja’s body changed and “began to whisper to the adults around me in a language I did not understand,” their relationship grew tense. Unwittingly, they were replaying a drama from her mother’s past, a drama Nadja sensed but had never been told. Then, after college, her mother suddenly opened up to her. Françoise recounted her turbulent adolescence caught between a volatile mother and a playboy father, one of the first plastic surgeons in France. The weight of the difficult stories she told her daughter shifted the balance between them. It had taken an ocean to allow Françoise the distance to become her own person. At about the same age, Nadja made the journey in reverse, moving to Paris determined to get to know the woman her mother had fled. Her grandmother’s memories contradicted her mother’s at nearly every turn, but beneath them lay a difficult history of her own. Nadja emerged with a deeper understanding of how each generation reshapes the past in order to forge ahead, their narratives both weapon and defense, eternally in conflict. Every reader will recognize herself and her family in I'm Supposed to Protect You From All This, a gorgeous and heartbreaking memoir that helps us to see why sometimes those who love us best hurt us most.

Author : Susan Elmslie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1771314672

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Museum of Kindness by Susan Elmslie Pdf

Poetry. Women's Studies. MUSEUM OF KINDNESS, Montreal poet Susan Elmslie's searching second collection of poetry, is a book that bravely examines "genres" familiar and hard to fathom: the school shooting, PTSD, raising a child who has a disability. In poems grounded in the domestic and in workaday life, poems burnished by silence and the weight of the unspoken, poems by turns ironic and sincere, Elmslie asks "What, exactly, is / unthinkable?" Candid, urgent, celebratory, and wise, this is a book for all of us; in it, we encounter a sober and unflinching gaze that meets us where we really live and does not look away.

Author : Nadia L. Hohn,Irene Luxbacher
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554989218

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Malaika’s Winter Carnival by Nadia L. Hohn,Irene Luxbacher Pdf

Malaika is happy to be reunited with Mummy, but it means moving to Canada, where everything is different. It’s cold in Québec City, no one understands when she talks and Carnival is nothing like the celebration Malaika knows from home! When Mummy marries Mr. Frédéric, Malaika gets a new sister called Adèle. Her new family is nice, but Malaika misses Grandma. She has to wear a puffy purple coat, learn a new language and get used to calling this new place home. Things come to a head when Mummy and Mr. Frédéric take Malaika and Adèle to a carnival. Malaika is dismayed that there are no colorful costumes and that it’s nothing like Carnival at home in the Caribbean! She is so angry that she kicks over Adèle’s snow castle, but that doesn’t make her feel any better. It takes a video chat with Grandma to help Malaika see the good things about her new home and family. Nadia L. Hohn’s prose, written in a blend of standard English and Caribbean patois, tells a warm story about the importance of family, especially when adjusting to a new home. Readers of the first Malaika book will want to find out what happens when she moves to Canada, and will enjoy seeing Malaika and her family once again depicted through Irene Luxbacher’s colorful collage illustrations.

Author : Sasha Steensen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1848617100

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Everything Awake by Sasha Steensen Pdf

Everything Awake was written during a dreamy, disorienting period of insomnia. In the middle of the night, I began studying Catullus, imagining that his hendecasyllabic rhythms might shush me to sleep. Instead, they prompted a series of eleven-line poems with eleven syllables per line. I was drawn to the number, via Catullus, because it felt both excessive and insufficient, just like the space of an insomniac's day. Eleven opened up onto an expanse in which I could think about dwelling, in a day, at the foot of a wind-swept mountain, in a family of humans, animals and plants, all of whom needed my care. Like Catullus's neoteric poems, these poems attempt to bring the private, domestic space to bear upon the larger, public sphere in hopes that each might inform the other. The assumption of these poems is an ancient one-our most basic daily acts of care, and our most intimate relationships, define our relationship to the larger world. My hope is that these poems might offer one humble account of care in our deeply damaged world. "In Steensen's verse the elusive "seam between dawn and dreams" is luminous, tenderly sewn into gardens of quiet, tucked between tumultuous days and nights. When we find ourselves sleepless, when there is "no feed," when we are "out to sea" her poems are rowboats, groves, refuge. In Everything Awake the known gives birth to the unknown and brings us closer not only to lucid dreams, but to the necessity of lucid wakefulness. This beautiful book provides solace for the unmoored, not by providing fixity, but by reminding us that the lens of the sacred is made of consciousness, excludes nothing, and is always curious." -Laynie Browne

Author : Charmaine Cadeau
Publisher : Brick Books - All Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1926829816

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Placeholder by Charmaine Cadeau Pdf

Poetry. Provisional, roaming, obsessed with remnants and deferrals, the poems in Charmaine Cadeau's second collection navigate flexible and shifting terrains where the speaker's emotional directness tethers us as we dare to read on. Though Cadeau is capable of some stunning acrobatics--somersaulting mid-line, the imagery defying gravity, the language a series of wows--she isn't in the business of showing off; instead, she goes subtly beyond the quotidian in search of that which saves the day or ruins the souffle or makes us all squirm in self-recognition. She dares the extraordinary to become a part of everyday. To read PLACEHOLDER is to enter a mesmerizing stream of consciousness response to a world that is rarely in the same spot in the morning as we left it the night before.

Author : Nadja Lubiw-Hazard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Dysfunctional families
ISBN : 1989287174

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The Nap-Away Motel by Nadja Lubiw-Hazard Pdf

Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Young Adult. In the heart of Scarborough sits the Nap-Away Motel, a hunched building providing hidden worlds for its occupants. Within its derelict walls, Suleiman longs to rebuild his broken family, Tiffany creates a fantasy world to escape from her mother's neglect and Ori plans a search for their run-away twin brother. While they grapple with the challenges of mental health, addiction, and grief, the three dwellers manage to forge a friendship over a litter of stray kittens. Together, they find joy in ruin, and hope when everything seems lost.

Author : Nadia L. Hohn
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781773067889

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Malaika’s Costume by Nadia L. Hohn Pdf

Malaika’s mother can’t buy her a carnival costume — will she still be able to dance in the parade? It’s carnival time — the first carnival since Malaika’s mother moved to Canada to find a good job and provide for Malaika and her grandmother. Her mother promised she would send money for a costume, and Malaika marks off the days on her calendar as she waits for Mummy’s letter to arrive. But when the letter finally comes, Malaika learns that there is no money for her costume. Disappointed and upset at the thought of wearing her grandmother’s hand-me-down costume, Malaika leaves the house, running into Ms. Chin, the tailor, who offers Malaika a bag of scrap fabric. With her grandmother’s help, Malaika creates a patchwork rainbow peacock costume, and dances proudly in the parade. This heartwarming story about family, community and the celebration of carnival is written in a blend of standard English and Caribbean patois. Nadia L. Hohn’s warm prose and Irene Luxbacher’s vibrant collage-style illustrations make this a strikingly original picture book. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.6 With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.1 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.