Poetry

Poetry (derived from the Greek poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning. Poetry has a long history – dating back to prehistoric times with hunting poetry in Africa, and to panegyric and elegiac court poetry of the empires of the Nile, Niger, and Volta River valleys. Some of the earliest written poetry in Africa occurs among the Pyramid Texts written during the 25th century BCE. The earliest surviving Western Asian epic poetry, …

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UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 May 2024 English

The Briscoe-MacDougall family retire to their lakeside cabin each summer. This annual vacation is at time to unwind and refresh, a time to relax away from the hustle and bustle …

of the Holocaust, the Shoah? There could be no poetry after Auschwitz. He felt that he had learned, all of this horror? Humans were, are, barbaric. Poetry was, is, barbaric. The dream was too easy, too


CHB: Coach House Books · 14 May 2024 English

Carole Maso, among others, Indian Winter finds itself where the travel diary, the künstlerroman, poetry, and autofiction meet. But the heartbreak brought on by his unravelling relationship and his family's

Laxmi, who is a frequent visitor. They call her ‘Poetry Aunty.’ Though Laxmi has lived in Chennai for and reads and can write in Malayalam but writes poetry only in English. I cannot think of another place the official language of one’s home state, write poetry in one’s second language, and still be respected charming. I talk to him every evening. He loves poetry, but his knowledge seems to end with British romantic Wyatt or Vaughan. • Most evenings there are poetry readings at bookstores at which one or two of


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English

Although he had a short career, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was a prolific writer, publishing seventeen books in the span of seventeen years. Convinced that “style must live,” he focused …

“Doctrine” by pointing out that style should border on poetry without actually being poetic, and that one should


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English

In Logic in the Wild Patrick Girard presents logic as the guardian of coherence. Logic, Girard argues, finds coherence in the patterns of reasoning shared across science, religion, and everyday …

deeper than the basics of education in arith- metic, poetry, or physical training, and they could be hired


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English

through such diverse forms as mattress commercials, billboards, comic books, memoirs, experimental poetry, and bedtime story phone apps. By guiding us through this imaginative landscape, Huebener shows us

can we learn from other literary forms such as poetry? And how might we build a larger cultural literacy contemporary16 R estless in Sleep Country war poetry by a white, male veteran of the Afghanistan War) it is difficult to represent in narrative form. Poetry provides a key intervention in this problem, and representations of sleep in poet- ry in Canada. Poetry about sleep tests the limits of literary representation realm and brings it back to the literal. Whereas poetry tends to experiment with elements of language and


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English

Mary MacLeod was a rarity: a female bard in seventeenth-century Scotland. A chronicle of travel through the Scottish Hebrides, More Richly in Earth explores MacLeod’s life and legacy, preserved within …

VII A Gathering VIII Metaphors for Poetry IX Cauldron X A Weakness Borland estate in Glen Lochay. Each morning I write poetry and reviews at my desk in a tiny attic room with wondered if they were raised there to mirror galaxies. Poetry, not belief, is the filter through which I absorb meshes with my nature and feeds my curiosity and my poetry, I have never been happier. 5 A Traveller’s Tale3 its novelists; and since I have begun publishing poetry in Scottish magazines, I’ve encountered Scotland’s


CHB: Coach House Books · 7 May 2024 English

Taking its title from lossless data compression algorithms, Lossless transmits through time and space those ‘stabs of self’ that intensify with loss of relationships, of faith, of childhood, of people. …

LOSSLESSLOSSLESS poetry by Matthew Tierney Coach House Books, Torontocopyright © Matthew CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION Title: Lossless / poetry by Matthew Tierney. Names: Tierney, Matthew, author (PDF) | ISBN  (EPUB) Subjects: LCGFT: Poetry. Classification: LCC PS.I L  | DDC previously appeared in The Fiddlehead, Juniper Poetry, and The Walrus. 92// The Canada Council for Tierney is the author of four previous books of poetry, most recently Midday at the Super-Kamiokande


CHB: Coach House Books · 7 May 2024 English

THE TORONTO STAR'S "30 BOOKS WE CAN'T WAIT TO READ THIS SPRING" The updated edition of a Toronto favourite meanders around some of the city’s unique neighborhoods and considers what …

those with little imagination will dismiss the poetry about a city as useless, but Di Cicco was encouraging


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 30 April 2024 English

Limited Verse is now universally recognized as a valuable case study in the short-lived literary arts of New English. The translated poems in this collection offer a fascinating portal to …

ISBN 9781773855318 (softcover) Subjects: LCGFT: Poetry. Classification: LCC PS8626.A76945 L56 2024 | DDC exists in the novels, dramas, memoirs, essays, and poetry of New English. In addition, I can confidently prospective avenues for analysis of New English poetry that this critical edition opens for students,


BOU: Boulder Books · 20 April 2024 English

Marjorie Doyle grew up in a life of privilege in St. John’s, Newfoundland’s capital city. Her father, a middle-aged prosperous businessman, married Mary Foley, a young woman who had escaped …

songbook—a collection of the island’s folk songs and poetry. He was the patriot publisher behind the Family


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