Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida

Author : Roo Borson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106018530508

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Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida by Roo Borson Pdf

In Roo Borson’s new watershed collection, it is as though language were being taught to increase its powers of concentration, to hearken simultaneously to the fully impinged-upon senses, the reflecting mind with its griefs and yearnings, the heart with its burden of live memory. Always “the line bends as the river bends,” a quick ever-adjusting music that carries in its current those cherished, perishable, details of eye and ear, mid-life reflections on loss and home, the subtle shifts in season suddenly made strange and re-awakened. Recurrently, probingly, the line returns to the place of poetry in our lives. In the spirit of Basho’s famous journey to the far north, Borson’s “short journey” reminds us of the role of poetry in shaping and deepening our engagement with the world.

Author : AndrŽ Alexis
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780887847509

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Beauty and Sadness by AndrŽ Alexis Pdf

Award-winning novelist and critic Andre Alexis explores worlds with names such as Henry James, Maupassant, and Kawabata, trying, like any traveller, to faithfully convey what he sees and feels in those places while giving a convincing portrait of himself. At the same time, Beauty and Sadnessis an autobiography. Alexis's intent is to give a sense of what it is like to live ecstatically through literature — what it is like to read Tolstoy and feel that The Death of Ivan Ilych, for instance, is connected to the land of his birth, Trinidad, as intimately as it is to his home, Canada. In the final piece of the book, entitled "Water", Alexis gives the reader an intimate sense of what it has been like to live as a writer these last twenty years while practicing an art form (fiction/literature) that he contends is in decline. In the author's own words: Beauty and sadness is where world and words meet.

Author : Erin Moure
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781770891401

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The Griffin Poetry Prize 2005 Anthology by Erin Moure Pdf

The fifth volume of The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology includes selections from the books shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize, chosen by the jurors: UK poet Simon Armitage, Governor General's Award winner Erin Moure, and Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun. Royalties from the anthology are donated to UNESCO's World Poetry Day.

Author : Reingard M. Nischik
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1571133593

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History of Literature in Canada by Reingard M. Nischik Pdf

The development of literature in Canada with an eye to its multicultural, multiethnic, multilingual nature. From modest colonial beginnings, literature in Canada has arrived at the center stage of world literature. Works by English-Canadian writers -- both established writers such as Margaret Atwood and new talents such as Yann Martel -- make regular appearances on international bestseller lists. French-Canadian literature has also found its own voice in the North American and francophone worlds. "CanLit" has likewise developed into a staple of academic interest, pursued in Canadian Studies programs in Canada and around the world. This volume draws on the expertise of scholars from Canada, Germany, Austria, and France, tracing Canadian literature from the indigenous oral tradition to thedevelopment of English-Canadian and French-Canadian literature since colonial times. Conceiving of Canada as a single but multifaceted culture, it accounts for specific characteristics of English- and French-Canadian literatures, such as the vital role of the short story in English Canada or that of the chanson in French Canada. Yet special attention is also paid to Aboriginal literature and to the pronounced transcultural, ethnically diverse character ofmuch contemporary Canadian literature, thus moving clearly beyond the traditions of the two founding nations. Contributors: Reingard M. Nischik, Eva Gruber, Iain M. Higgins, Guy Laflèche, Dorothee Scholl, Gwendolyn Davies, Tracy Ware, Fritz Peter Kirsch, Julia Breitbach, Lorraine York, Marta Dvorak, Jerry Wasserman, Ursula Mathis-Moser, Doris G. Eibl, Rolf Lohse, Sherrill Grace, Caroline Rosenthal, Martin Kuester, Nicholas Bradley, Anne Nothof, Georgiana Banita, Gilles Dupuis, and Andrea Oberhuber. Reingard M. Nischik is Professor of American Literature at the University of Constance, Germany.

Author : Jeremy Noel-Tod,Ian Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199640256

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The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English by Jeremy Noel-Tod,Ian Hamilton Pdf

This impressive volume provides over 1,700 biographical entries on poets writing in English from 1910 to the present day, including T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Carol Ann Duffy. Authoritative and accessible, it is a must-have for students of English and creative writing, as well as for anyone with an interest in poetry.

Author : Eva-Marie Kröller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108394123

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The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature by Eva-Marie Kröller Pdf

This fully revised second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature offers a comprehensive introduction to major writers, genres and topics. For this edition several chapters have been completely rewritten to reflect major developments in Canadian literature since 2004. Surveys of fiction, drama and poetry are complemented by chapters on Aboriginal writing, autobiography, literary criticism, writing by women and the emergence of urban writing. Areas of research that have expanded since the first edition include environmental concerns and questions of sexuality which are freshly explored across several different chapters. A substantial chapter on francophone writing is included. Authors such as Margaret Atwood, noted for her experiments in multiple literary genres, are given full consideration, as is the work of authors who have achieved major recognition, such as Alice Munro, recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature.

Author : Danielle Schaub
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0888644590

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Reading Writers Reading by Danielle Schaub Pdf

"I am a writer because I was a reader first." Alison Gordon. "Nobody has ever written who never read." Mavis Gallant. "Reading is a connection, at once a way and a goal, a liberating destiny." Robert Kroetsch. Over 160 Canadian writers, in English and French, write about their experiences of reading. With striking photographs of each writer, Reading Writers Reading offers a sublime voyage into the heart of literary creation.

Author : Kim Maltman,Roo Borson
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781770899636

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Box Kite by Kim Maltman,Roo Borson Pdf

"A piece of paper with writing on it is flat, but when what is written on that paper fills the mind of a reader, it takes off into the wind like a box kite on a windy day," writes Baziju — the shared voice of poets Roo Borson and Kim Maltman. This exquisite, collaboratively written sequence of prose poems, unfolding through rich, delicate imagery, journeys through streets and gardens, houses and temples, cities and countryside, Canada and China. It is a meditation on the way we travel between places and between times, and how words and ideas travel between languages. Baziju explores the literature of China, from centuries past to the present, exploring, at the same time, the meaning of hope and of home: childhood homes, the homes we grow into, and the homes in our minds. In Lu Xun's classic story "My Old Home," the hero returns from a distant city to the home he left two decades earlier. Hope, he ponders, "is just like the roads of the earth... . [T]o begin with the earth has no roads, but where many people pass, there a road is made." These sensual, deeply personal prose poems ponder change, loss, friendship, and belonging. In a life in which every detail has significance, the smallest observation grows, and spreads like the branches of wisteria.

Author : Roo Borson
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780771012990

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Rain; road; an open boat by Roo Borson Pdf

The first new collection of poetry from Roo Borson since her highly acclaimed collection Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida, winner of three major prizes, including the Griffin Poetry Prize. Roo Borson's new collection continues the exploration of form, tone, musicality, and content begun in her widely acclaimed previous collection. Here, co-existing peacefully, are the river stone, painted white, that greets the visitor to the grave of the poet James K. Baxter in the far back country of New Zealand's Wanganui River; the Beijing night sky, turned apricot by the smog and full moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival; the crypts of Toronto's Mount Pleasant Cemetery, seen as potential living spaces; an old friend speaking "knowledgeably, reverentially, and at the same time light-heartedly, in this way gradually restoring significance to the world." By turns wry and ecstatic, droll and elegiac, quizzical and contemplative, this is a major new work by one of our most singular and compelling poets.

Author : Cynthia Holz
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05
Category : Family secrets
ISBN : 9780307398901

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Benevolence by Cynthia Holz Pdf

Cynthia Holz's first novel with Knopf Canada is a spellbinding story that offers an intimate look at family, friendship and altruism, and unrolls a cast of characters you can't help but root for even as you question some of the things they do. Dr. Ben Wasserman, an organ transplant psychiatrist, is having trouble assessing a would-be kidney donor who may turn out to be a bona fide altruist. But as his interest in the man grows, so do his professional and emotional conflicts. At the same time, Ben's psychologist wife, Renata Moon, is struggling to treat a phobic client whose husband died in a train crash. When the young woman reveals that she is pregnant, Renata's disappointment in her own childless marriage is triggered anew. Ben and Renata work hard all day, then go home to squabble over the nightly take-out. It doesn't help to ease the rising tension in their marriage that Ben's widowed mother, Molly, has made her disapproval of her yet-to-be-pregnant daughter-in-law well known. Nor does it help when Molly takes in a boarder, a man from her past whose secrets threaten to complicate the family dynamics even more. Benevolence is intelligent, amusing and deeply humane, a novel that asks unsettling questions, makes surprising connections and allows room for some unexpected, magical solutions. From the Hardcover edition.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1610 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Canada Imprints
ISBN : 00688398

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Canadian Books in Print. Author and Title Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tara Quinn
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770894099

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The New Brick Reader by Tara Quinn Pdf

Fifty writers on life, art and writing from twenty-two years of Brick, A Literary Journal. Founded in 1977, Brick, A Literary Journal features a great many of the world’s best-loved writers, and has readers in every corner of the planet. The magazine prizes the personal voice and celebrates opinion, passion, revelation, and the occasional bad joke. This anthology, which collects some of the very best work to appear in Brick over the last twenty-two years, is an essential collection of some of the finest writers at work today including, John Berger, Fanny Howe, Don DeLillo, Elizabeth Hay, Colm Tóibín, A.L. Kennedy, Alistair McLeod, Tim Lilburn, Jane Rule and Jeffrey Eugenides to name but a few. Full of invigorating and challenging literary essays, interviews, memoirs, travelogues, belles lettres, and unusual musings, The New Brick Reader is the perfect introduction for those new to Brick and an ideal treasury for the magazine’s many fans. Contributors include Rob Fyfe, Alistair Macleod, Michael Ondaatje (interview with Malouf), Annie Proulx, Brand, Creeley, Rushdie, CD Wright, Atwood, Gibson, Russell, Banks (what I'd be if not a writer), Peter Harcourt, Jane Rule, James Wood (interviews W G Sebald), Helen Garner, Elizabeth Hay, Michael Helm, Jeffrey Eugenides, Roo Borson, Jonathan Lethem, Tim Lilburn, Robert Creeley, Michelle Orange, Fanny Howe, A. L. Kennedy, Semi Chellas, Don DeLillo, Alistair Bland, Dionne Brand, Esta Spalding (interviews David Sedaris), John Berger, Clark Blaise, Jim Harrison, Clayton Ruby, Robert Hass, George Toles, Stephan Bureau (interview with Mavis Gallant), Roberto Bolano & Forrest Gander, Leon Edel (Craig Howes), Paule Anglim (interview with Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia), Colm Toibin, Don Paterson, Albert Nussbaum, W.S. Merwin, Sean Michaels, Charles Foran, Colum McCann & R. Chandran Madhu, Melora Wolff, and Eleanor Wachtel (with Anne Carson).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015079684596

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The Malahat Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sarah Pinder
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781770563247

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Cutting Room by Sarah Pinder Pdf

Cutting Room both describes and pushes against the anxious hum of the technologically saturated present. Sarah Pinder's poems navigate domestic and "natural" spaces as landscapes charged with possible violence and desire while they scan scenes as an outsider or camera eye to unsettle and fray familiar settings. Using hyper-focus and the long gaze, they draw the eye to the corners and seams of these spaces, slowing us down, shifting our focus to worn detail, asking us to seek pattern and possibility in a hyper-paced present tense. These are little ominous films, documenting the minutiae around us that can be our undoing. Let their ribs stretch out – there is no figure which is not also a ground in its arctic plane. Cutting rooms as luck would have it have academic sincerity. Sarah Pinder was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and lives in Toronto, Ontario. This is her first collection.

Author : Roo Borson
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart Limited
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0771015895

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Water Memory by Roo Borson Pdf

A new collection of free-verse and prose poems by Borson. Some strong language.