04336nam 2200709 450 991045567790332120200520144314.01-282-02265-297866120226541-4426-8142-X10.3138/9781442681422(CKB)2420000000004443(OCoLC)431554634(CaPaEBR)ebrary10218866(SSID)ssj0000298108(PQKBManifestationID)11243557(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000298108(PQKBWorkID)10344124(PQKB)10632245(CaBNvSL)thg00600317 (MiAaPQ)EBC3254961(MiAaPQ)EBC4672072(DE-B1597)464972(OCoLC)1002233106(OCoLC)1004879902(OCoLC)1011447461(OCoLC)1013954410(OCoLC)944177257(OCoLC)999354143(DE-B1597)9781442681422(Au-PeEL)EBL4672072(CaPaEBR)ebr11257756(OCoLC)958558972(EXLCZ)99242000000000444320160923h20052005 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe half-lives of Pat Lowther /Christine WiesenthalToronto, Ontario ;Buffalo, New York ;London, England :University of Toronto Press,2005.©20051 online resource (510 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8020-7780-3 0-8020-3635-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chronology -- Introduction: Toward a Half-Life of Pat Lowther -- PART I. The Craft of Memory -- Chapter 1. Three September Twenty-Threes -- Chapter 2. Not about Poetry -- Chapter 3. Canonicity and the 'Cult of the Victim' -- PART II. Complicated Airflows in the House -- Chapter 4. 'At, Rat, Cat, Sat, Pat' -- Chapter 5. 5823 St George Street -- Chapter 6. A Difficult Flowering -- Chapter 7. That 'Spinning Female Thing' -- Chapter 8. It Happens Every Day -- PART III. Ready to Learn Politics -- Chapter 9. The First 'Red Flag' -- Chapter 10. The Local Left -- Chapter 11. The Age of the Bird -- Chapter 12. Longitudes, North -- Chapter 13. Longitudes, South -- Chapter 14. Welcome to the League -- PART IV. Philosophy's First Molecule -- Chapter 15. Infinite Mirror Trips -- Chapter 16. The Land Is What's Left -- Chapter 17. 'History, and Context, and Continuity' -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- IndexSince her untimely death in 1975, the life and work of the Vancouver poet Pat Lowther have often been referred to as 'the Lowther legacy.' In The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther, Christine Wiesenthal seeks to convey what that legacy actually entails.Combining biography with an analysis of literary and cultural history, Wiesenthal examines the critical legacy of a writer whose remarkable life and poetry have remained overshadowed by her notorious death. Working within a new form of biography, which employs multiple narrative arcs - or 'half-lives' - that interpret Lowther's life and poetry within and across several interpretive frameworks, Wiesenthal retraces the influences on the public memory of the poet. She charts Lowther's complex creative evolution: from her modest beginnings as a high-school drop out and single mother, to her emergence as one of the most distinctive poetic voices of the seventies. A wealth of previously uncollected and unpublished letters, notebook entries, court documents, interviews, and archival materials illuminate Pat Lowther's manifold achievements in her domestic, political, and intellectual lives. The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther is the premier work on this remarkable figure.Poets, Canadian20th centuryBiographyElectronic books.Poets, Canadian811/.54Wiesenthal Christine1051483MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455677903321The half-lives of Pat Lowther2482006UNINA