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Listen. If / Douglas Barbour.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.3.B37 A6 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barbour, Douglas, 1940- author.
- Series:
- Robert Kroetsch series
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canadian poetry--20th century.
- Canadian poetry.
- Canadian poetry--21st century.
- Genre:
- Ekphrastic poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 137 pages ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- "In this new collection, Douglas Barbour experiments with what he calls "rhythmically intense open form." Listen. If presents technically innovative poetry that invites the reader to join in some serious play. Barbour's vivid, ekphrastic poems engage an ongoing conversation among artworks-not only classic paintings but also popular music-while his lyric poems astutely, accessibly evoke places, moments, and feelings. This is poetry that takes up language both as the already-said and as a playground for brilliant technique. Leaping from love to landscapes, politics to jazz, Keats to Milne to Monk, these poems yearn to be spoken aloud for the pure joy of sound."-- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN:
- 1772122548
- 9781772122541
- OCLC:
- 956625444
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