Whistle stops : a locomotive serial poem / Emily Izsak ; Garry Thomas Morse, editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Izsak, Emily, author.

Contributor:

Morse, Garry Thomas, editor.

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Serial poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

83 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Winnipeg, Manitoba : Signature Editions, [2017]

Summary:

"Whistle Stops: A Locomotive Serial Poem occurs over a series of train rides between Toronto and London, Ontario. Each segment of the poem, marked by a time stamp and train number, occupies one train ride. Jack Spicer's concept of serial poetry combines with Charles Olson's "projective verse" in a dynamic that resembles the momentum of a train as it carries the poetry speaker toward and away from her love interest. Informed by Philip Larkin, Thomas Hardy, and Allen Ginsberg whose poetry incorporated the train as a phallus image into the railway poem tradition, Izsak responds to critiques of a poetic movement she clearly revers with unbridled and surreal female sexuality. It is an unapologetically female addition to a movement that is and should be still in motion."-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781773240053

1773240056

OCLC:

968777070

Publisher Number:

99974394839