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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154965103321

Autore

Dudek Louis <1918-2001.>

Titolo

All these roads : the poetry of Louis Dudek / / selected with an introduction by Karis Sherer ; and an afterword by Frank Davey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-55458-785-9

1-282-23343-2

9786613811172

1-55458-133-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (87 p.)

Collana

Laurier poetry series

Altri autori (Persone)

ShearerKaris <1980->

Disciplina

811/.54

Soggetti

Aesthetics

Canadian poetry - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Foreword; Biographical Note; Introduction; On Poetry and Profession; Dedications and Intertexts; Long Poems; Afterword; Acknowledgements

Sommario/riassunto

A passionate believer in the power of art-and especially poetry-to influence and critique contemporary culture, Louis Dudek devoted much of his life to shaping the Canadian literary scene through his meditative and experimental poems as well as his work in publishing and teaching. All These Roads: The Poetry of Louis Dudek brings together thirty-five of Dudek's poems written over the course of his sixty-year career.     Much of Dudek's poetry is about the practice of art, with comment on the way the craft of poetry is mediated by such factors as university classes, public readi