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Mosaic Orpheus / Peter Dale Scott.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scott, Peter Dale.
- Series:
- Hugh MacLennan poetry series ; 20.
- Hugh MacLennan poetry series ; 20
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canadian literature.
- Political poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 182 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Working always to connect the polemical to the personal, Peter Dale Scott's political poems - from the tear gas of Berkeley protests in the 1960s to the problems of Thai forest monks in an era of drug-trafficking and deforestation - are a process of self-questioning. Self-questioning also marks his meditation poems, including a sequence on the death of his first wife. In opposition to contemporary poems of studied meaninglessness, Scott increasingly recognizes a compulsion in himself to radically reaffirm traditional rejections of the external world and turn to the refuges of poets before him, the enduring commonplaces that are more than cliches.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Seven Canadian Poems
- The Power Of Prayer
- Occitanian Spring
- Wittenham Clumps
- Something Precious
- Holy Land I: Truth
- Holy Land II: Force
- Confession
- The Size of Earth
- Mae Salong
- Wat Pa Nanachat
- The Tao Of 9/11
- Making History, Unfolding World
- The Size Of Earth: A Short Simple Poem To Get Us Out Of Iraq
- Global Sonnets
- Above Siberia
- On Not Recognizing Ronna In Bangkok
- View From Phayao Ram
- To Carol Shields
- For Raquel Scherr
- For Raquel Scherr (2)
- Home
- Jacques De Coutre (l595)
- Walking Meditation
- For Jintapak
- For Sharon Dahl
- Luzern Symposium: Der Inszenierte Terrorismus
- Recalling V-J Day, 8/15/1945
- Writing A Friend’s Obituary From Xian
- For Maylie Scott
- For Maylie Scott (Kushin Seisho Daiosho)
- Marianna
- Commuting to the Land of Medicine Buddha
- Commuting To The Land Of Medicine Buddha
- VI
- The Wings Of Time Passing
- The Tree
- The Riddle
- Difficulty
- Pleasure
- Earthlight
- Cape Flattery, Washington
- Turn Of A Century
- Non E Cosa In Terra
- Pelican
- What Is Beauty?
- Words To Du Fu From The Oakland Airport Parking Lot
- Kingfisher
- Mendocino
- VII
- A Simple, Difficult, Lesson In Thai
- Breathing Exercise: A How-To Poem
- No Third World
- Good-Bye To Thailand
- Secular Prayer
- Acknowledgments
- Notes:
- Poems.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786612865794
- 9780773577961
- 0773577963
- 9781282865792
- 128286579X
- 9780773575240
- 0773575243
- OCLC:
- 1257337693
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