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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AUP: Athabasca University Press · 22 November 2024 English
“Dopp looks closely at hockey myths but not solely to debunk them. Hockey on the Moon offers a conversation in the best sense. This is hockey talk that works across …
Chapter 12 examines Randall Maggs’ 2008 collection of poetry, Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems. In Night Work … Michael Kennedy’s widely used anthology of hockey poetry, Going Top Shelf (from which I cite in what follows) … Going Top Shelf: An Anthology of Canadian Hockey Poetry, edited by Michael P. J. Kennedy, 23. Surrey, … available at https:// www . baseball - almanac . com / poetry / po _ stmo .shtml. Novak, Michael. [1976] 1988 …
UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 November 2024 English
Andy Weaver led a life of quiet contemplation before becoming a father at the age of 42. Within three years he had two sons; two small, relentless disruptions to an …
| ISBN 9781773855851 (EPUB) Subjects: LCGFT: Poetry. Classification: LCC PS8595.E175 L66 2024 | DDC … So don’t trust poetry, but mostly ignore the insurers and their actuarial …
UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 12 November 2024 English
Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope met en lumière les actions entreprises par des universitaires en réponse à certains des appels à l’action de la Commission de vérité et réconciliation. …
Garry’s book Bent Back Tongue, a collection of poetry published by Caitlin Press in 2022. A visceral … the poetry Garry has written to express in words elements of this photograph; the line of poetry, “dangling … authors have embedded poetry within a chapter. Some authors have stand- alone poetry. When a poem is embedded … is unique in so many ways. How often do you see poetry and creative * As far as I know, there is no … graphics that touch our visual senses; we read poetry that touches the deeper part of our heart and …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English
Tamazight – deserve wider recognition in the broader tradition and canon of (post)classical Arabic poetry. Alongside close readings of Maghribī poets such as Ibn Rashīq, Ibn Sharaf, al-Ḥuṣrī al-Ḍarīr, Ibn … into English of many poetic gems of premodern and precolonial Maghribī poetry, Of Lost Cities reveals the enduring power of poetry in capturing the essence of lost cities and the complex interplay of loss …
Subjects: LCSH: Elegiac poetry, Arabic—History and criticism. | LCSH: Arabic poetry—History and criticism … in Premodern Arabic Elegiac and Nostalgic City Poetry | 132 Appendix | 137 Notes | 155 Index | 231This … Press, 2018); and The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Poetry, ed. Huda Fakhreddine and Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych … delves into Maghribī elegiac and nostalgic city poetry, takes on added poignancy in the wake of recent … Arabic titles when first cited. In premodern Arabic poetry, titles, as we understand them today, are not …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 5 November 2024 English
“A tender, beautifully written essay collection that is about so much more than parenting a child with a disability.” — Erin Pepler, author of Send Me Into The Woods AloneA …
intentionally left blankEleven Years a Country POETRY SEGMENTS FROM “The Country of Marriage” by Wendell …
Canada Council for the Arts · 4 November 2024 English
When negotiating agreements with the provincial and territorial governments, including funding agreements, in areas of activity that may contribute to enhancing the vitality of official language minority communities, fostering the …
books in seven categories: Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Drama, Young People’s Literature – Text, Young …
CPRC: University of Regina Press · 29 October 2024 English
A collection of memories chronicling love, grief, and a life lived on and off stage Raised on a farm and educated in a prairie Bible school, Layne Coleman escapes the …
to survive three and a half hours of speaking poetry, fighting with knives and swords, before finally …
EAC: Centre d'action écologique · 28 October 2024 English
We like to believe our voices are important, but When we were looking at the property, known at the time as we need to listen to our relations too. [...] …
sector of climate change. We can educate people and poetry, but also videos, songs and performance. about …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 25 October 2024 English
Between Composers unveils the previously unpublished correspondence between Canadian composers Norma Beecroft and Harry Somers from 1959 to 1960. The letters detail the downfall of their romance, trace their artistic …
ning, garden of Eden, Eve and all that! It has poetry – Adam back to feed the world as penance. God’s …
EAC: Centre d'action écologique · 25 October 2024 English
The predicted increased risks to our coastal communities content to balance our desire to be on the coast with the threat of due to climate change will come at cost …
used correctly, the atlas can help to prevent and poetry, but also videos, songs and performance. about …
