The career of Eli Mandel (1922–1992) was one of the most prolific and distinguished in all of Canadian literature, yet in recent years his work has gone unsung compared with that of such peers as Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Robert Kroetsch, Irving Layton, and P.K. Page. Though he was a critic, anthologist, and editor of national prominence, Mandel’s legacy resides most securely in his poetry, which earned many accolades.
From Room to Room: The Poetry of Eli Mandel presents thirty-five of Mandel’s best poems written over four decades, from the 1950s to the 1980s. The selection covers the most prominent themes in Mandel’s work, including his Russian-Jewish heritage, his Saskatchewan upbringing, his interest in classical and biblical archetypes, and his concern for the political and social issues of his time. The book also highlights the way in which Mandel’s work bridged the formal attributes of modernist poetry with contemporary, sometimes experimental, poetics.
Complete with a scholarly introduction by Peter Webb and a literary afterword by Andrew Stubbs, From Room to Room makes a worthy addition to the Laurier Poetry Series, which presents affordable editions of contemporary Canadian poetry for use in the classroom and the enjoyment of anyone wishing to read some of the finest poetry Canada has to offer.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781554582556 9781554583201
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.M347
- LCCN Item number
- A6 2011eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xvii, 64 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00229740 (OCoLC)670421206 (CaOOCEL)435831
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Table of Contents 6
- Foreword 8
- Biographical Note 9
- Introduction 11
- Minotaur Poems 20
- Estevan Saskatchewan 25
- The Fire Place 26
- In the Caves of My City 27
- City Park Merry-Go-Round 28
- Doll on the Mantelpiece 29
- Epilogue 30
- Mary Midnight’s Prologue 31
- Charles Isaac Mandel 32
- David 33
- Hippolytus 34
- The Meaning of the I CHING 35
- Girl on a High Wire 38
- Houdini 39
- The Madness of Our Polity 40
- The Speaking Earth 41
- From the North Saskatchewan 42
- Two Dream Songs for John Berryman 43
- On the 25th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz 45
- Room XV 49
- On the Renewal of Bombing in VietNam December, 1972 50
- Envoi 51
- From Out of Place 52
- The return 52
- Signs 54
- Doors of perception 55
- Near Hirsch a Jewish cemetery 57
- STRIKE sept 1931 58
- Estevan, 1934 59
- Petroglyphs at st victor 60
- The doppelganger 65
- Pictures in an Institution 66
- On the Murder of Salvador Allende 69
- The Madwomen of the Plaza de Mayo 72
- In My 57th Year 74
- Zenith: Saving to Disk 75
- Afterword 76
- Acknowledgements 82
