Measures of astonishment : poets on poetry / presented by the League of Canadian Poets.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

League of Canadian Poets, editor.

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Series:

Oksana poetry & poetics book series.

Oksana poetry & poetics book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Poetry.

Poetics.

Canadian essays--21st century.

Canadian essays.

Genre:

Lectures.

Essays.

Physical Description:

xiv, 233 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, [2016]

Contents:

Preface / Glen Sorestad

Poetry's practice of philosophy / Tim Lilburn (2002)

Every exit is an entrance (A praise of sleep) / Anne Carson (2004)

Frederick Ward : writing as jazz / George Elliott Clarke (2005)

Why poetry? / Margaret Atwood (2006)

The angel of the Big Muddy / Mark Abley (2007)

Ediacaran and Anthropocene : poetry as a reader of deep time / Don McKay (2008)

Re-discovering ancient springs : a consideration of metaphorical space / Marilyn Bowering (2009)

Poetry and community / Anne Simpson (2010)

Pristine and startled : ways of seeing / Glen Sorestad (2011)

Coming (back) to poetry / Robert Currie (2012)

A garden is not a place : poetry and beauty / A.F.Moritz (2013)

Black voice : context and subtext / Lillian Allen (2014)

Conversation with the poet/Who didn't know my aunty / Gregory Scofield (2015).

Notes:

Anthology of lectures originally presented as part of the Anne Szumigalski lecture series, 2002-2015.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Contains:

Lilburn, Tim, 1950- Poetry's practice of philosophy.

ISBN:

9780889773714

0889773718

9780889773738

0889773734

9780889773721

0889773726

OCLC:

905385223

Publisher Number:

99967981388