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Chamber music : the poetry of Jan Zwicky / edited by Jan Zwicky, Darren Bifford, and Warren Heiti.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Laurier poetry series.
- Laurier poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canadian poetry.
- Zwicky, Jan, 1955---Criticism and interpretation.
- Zwicky, Jan.
- Zwicky, Jan, 1955---Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (84 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Arcing across thirty years and seven volumes, Jan Zwicky’s poetry has always been acutely musical (and sensitive to the silence out of which music comes). In the compositions in Chamber Music, the first anthology of Zwicky’s poems, one may perceive the attunement of her vocations: poet, philosopher, violinist. Her poetry both praises and relinquishes the earth, bearing witness to the fierce skies of the prairies and the freezing rain of the West Coast. Enacting the virtue of clarity prized and defended by her explicitly philosophical work, this poetry is both resonant and integrated. It is also formally diverse, ranging from the singular focus of the lyric ode to suites of variations and fugal structures, from polyphonic textures to the sprawling reach of narrative gestures. Throughout, one feels the deft hand of an adept using powerful metaphors to explore themes of colonial violence, environmental devastation, spiritual catastrophe, and transformation. Resisting Western philosophy’s exclusion of imagination from civic life, Zwicky’s poetry is noteworthy for the tension it achieves between the abstract and the personal, the general and the particular. Meditating repeatedly on themes of love and grief, this poetry is at once passionately committed to the lucidity of its utterances and the fidelity of its images.
- Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Biographical Note""; ""Introduction""; ""Practising Bach""; ""Language Is Hands""; ""from Leaving Home""; ""from Seven Elegies: Robert William Zwicky (1927�1987)""; ""The Horse Pull""; ""Your Body""; ""K. 219, Adagio""; ""The Geology of Norway""; ""Brahms� Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115""; ""Cashion Bridge""; ""Bill Evans: “Here�s That Rainy Day�""; ""Beethoven: Op. 95""; ""Driving Northwest""; ""Prairie""; ""Epistemology""; ""One Version""; ""Robinson�s Crossing""; ""History""; ""Another Version""
- ""Glenn Gould: Bach�s “Italian� Concerto, BWV 971""""Small song in praise of ears""; ""Small song for the voice of the nuthatch""; ""Small song: Prairie""; ""Small song to oneself""; ""Small song: Mozart""; ""Small song: Laundry""; ""from Music and Silence: Seven Variations""; ""Late Schubert""; ""Practising Bach""; ""Gemini""; ""If There Were Two Rivers""; ""From Distant Lands""; ""The Art of Fugue""; ""Schumann: Fantasie, Op. 17""; ""Autobiography""; ""Autumn Again""; ""An Abridgement of a Conversation with Jan Zwicky""; ""Acknowledgements""
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-77112-092-4
- OCLC:
- 907558327
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