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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 July 2024 English
Invisible Lives chronicles cycles of dysfunction and domestic violence. Using experimental hybrid poetry, Cristalle Smith breaks generational silence in lyric resonance, reflecting on a childhood rife with …
| ISBN 9781773855158 (PDF) Subjects: LCGFT: Poetry. Classification: LCC PS8637.M55965 I58 2024 | DDC … elevation and temperature changes. Questions How do poetry and lyric language sort trauma into meaningful … inspired me to face my fears and push into them. Poetry is a maze with no ending. A problem with no solution … even more important than that: The problem of my poetry. If you are an astronaut or cosmonaut looking … my mind to make the associative leaps. There is poetry rising up to subsume memories of Kasha. Now I work …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English
Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound explores the ways that sonic practices (speaking, listening, recording, etc.) serve as forms of aesthetic and political dissent throughout the literary, artistic, and academic …
back to the lines that open Scott’s 2008 book of poetry, blert: “It is part of my existence to be the … book describe the struggles that attend lifting poetry off the page into voiced, sounded, or otherwise … questions of legitimacy in the vein of, “Is this even poetry?”7 – questions that react to the digital mediation … conference offered manifold perspectives on performed poetry, sound art, recording technologies, and collective … With Mash’s background in spoken word and slam poetry – a long-time co-organizer of the Inspired Word …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English
The Poetics of Translation challenges our pragmatic understanding of translation through the discipline’s use in contemporary innovative writing practices, highlighting translation’s ability to create meaning, celebrate uncertainty, and interpret rather …
PrefaceContents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: The Poetry of Translation 3 1 Friendship and Translation in … 12 Real-ishINTRODUCTION The Poetry of Translation The language of poetry is a language of inquiry, not … France Théoret’s Laurence (How2) introduction: poetry and translation’s in-between(s) Translation’s relationship … raises several questions that relate it back to poetry or, more specifically, to a poet- ics. In the work … philosophical one. This encounter, between translation and poetry, is thematized as a shared relationship: both forms’ …
CHB: Coach House Books · 18 June 2024 English
WINNER OF A 2023 PEN TRANSLATES AWARD This punk-like blend of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives and Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream heralds an exciting new voice in international fiction Living …
charge, going all in. IV. Don’t start writing poetry unless you’ve opened your eyes underwater, unless … your eyes wide open. Also, don’t start writing poetry unless you’ve burned your fingers, unless you’ve … saga/fuga de J. B., a volume of Juan Gelman’s complete poetry, and Ender’s Game. We’ve gone from boredom to …
NSP: New Society Publishers · 11 June 2024 English
Leadership for the Great Transition—a changemaker’s toolkit for cultivating personal and community resilience The Regeneration Handbook offers an abundance of insights, stories, tools, practices, and resources for experienced and aspiring …
strong, creative, and kind. He composed spontaneous poetry and taught me tai chi on my wil- derness solo. … old friends. I started meditating and writing poetry, and went from eating fast food to becoming a vegetarian … continually on fire with inspi- ration, writing lots of poetry, dating an aspiring photographer, and hanging …
CHB: Coach House Books · 11 June 2024 English
A rediscovered classic, Yesterdays turns colonialism on its head. Originally published in 1974, Yesterdays is nominally the story of one man’s attempt to launch a Hindu Mission from Trinidad to …
dystopian. From the lonesome barflies in Bukowski’s poetry to the blood-red border landscapes of Cormac McCarthy …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 6 June 2024 English
Tracing Louis Riel’s metamorphosis from traitor to hero, Braz argues that, through his writing, Riel resists his portrayal as both a Canadian patriot and a pan-Indigenous leader. After being hanged …
him as a Canadian or Métis hero in light of his poetry and prose, which I examine in detail. Because of … resulted in the publica- tion of Riel’s extant poetry and prose, The Collected Writings of Louis Riel … Canadianization of Riel was the publication of his extant poetry and prose, The Collected Writings of Louis Riel … is predictably with Red River. Throughout his poetry and prose, Riel writes with much affec- tion about …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 4 June 2024 English
collection, Gloria Blizzard uses traditional narrative essays, hybrid structures, and the tools of poetry to negotiate the complexities of culture, geography, and language in an international diasporic quest …
always be lost. When I first entered a deep focus on poetry, music, and per- formance, my costumes for these …
AUP: Athabasca University Press · 28 May 2024 English
Reckoning with the experiences of refugees can inform epistemological and practical approaches to humanizing migrant populations before, during, and after their resettlement. Contributors explore what it means to experience dehumanization, …
language is shared. For the expressive performer, poetry, movement, and musical sound constitute an extrusion … func- tional language of quotidian interactions, poetry and music are inherently32 Abu- Laban, Frishkopf …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 28 May 2024 English
“A window into Canada's role in the making of Ernest Hemingway in clear, clean prose.” — Lee Gowan, author of The Beautiful PlaceSent to cover bank robber Red Ryan’s daring …
writing, things boiled down to their essence, like poetry, only it’s prose. What’s not there is more important …