Isbn: 9781772012378 - taking measures: selected serial poems (5 risultati)

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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. The first-ever collection of the major serial poems by Canada's inaugural Parliamentory Poet Laureate, George Bowering, Taking Measures offers a new and revealing look at this acclaimed and prolific author's poetic development and contribution to Canadian writing.The serial poem is a hybrid genre, stitching short lyrics together into sequential, long (typically book-length) poems; Bowering's innovative use of the form, always rooted in an engagement with place, with language, and with the intertwining of the two, shows him at his experimental and irreverent best, his trademark playful seriousness extended and expanded, producing poetry that remains compelling, complex, and exciting decades after its composition. Edited by the award-winning poet Stephen Collis, Taking Measures offers a career-spanning and revelatory sample of one of Canada's best-known and most versatile writers. Taking Measures collects the major serial poems of Canada's inaugural Poet Laureate, George Bowering, including work from each of the last six decades. Here is Bowering at his experimental and irreverent best. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Condizione: New. &Uumlber den AutorGeorge Bowering, Canadaes first Poet Laureate, was born in the Okanagan Valley.After serving as an aerial photographer in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Bowering earned a BA in English and an MA in history at t.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The first-ever collection of the major serial poems by Canada's inaugural Parliamentory Poet Laureate, George Bowering, Taking Measures includes work from each of the last six decades, beginning with Bowering's engagement with process-based long poems in the 1960s and 1970s and moving through his continued exploration of the form in recent decades. Containing well-known Bowering texts, including Allophanes, Autobiology, Delayed Mercy, Genève, and Kerrisdale Elegies, as well as Baseball, At War with the U.S., Irritable Reaching, Smoking Mirror, Do Sink, His Life, and Los Pájanos de Tenacatita, Taking Measures offers a new and revealing look at this acclaimed and prolific author's poetic development and contribution to Canadian writing.The serial poem is a hybrid genre, stitching short lyrics together into sequential, long (typically book-length) poems; Bowering's innovative use of the form, always rooted in an engagement with place, with language, and with the intertwining of the two, shows him at his experimental and irreverent best, his trademark playful seriousness extended and expanded, producing poetry that remains compelling, complex, and exciting decades after its composition. Edited by the award-winning poet Stephen Collis, Taking Measures offers a career-spanning and revelatory sample of one of Canada's best-known and most versatile writers.…