Children of the further dark [[electronic resource] ] : the poetry of Christopher Dewdney / / selected with an introduction by Karl E. Jirgens

• Autore: Dewdney Christopher <1951->
• Pubblicazione: Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: xviii, 58 p
• Disciplina: C811/.54
• Soggetto topico: English poetry; English literature
• Altri autori: JirgensKarl E
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Biographical Note -- Introduction -- Trees -- The Owl -- Nightwalker -- Coelacanth -- Sol du Soleil -- In the Critical Half-Light -- In a Manner of Fact -- Into the Maelstrom -- August -- That Night at Lake Huron -- On Attaining Remote Control -- This Is of Two Worlds -- Poem Using Lines Spoken by Suzanne -- United -- Dreadlocks at the Helm -- Souvenir -- Human Consciousness -- The Immaculate Perception -- Metaphor Templates -- Homonyms as Linguistic Necker Cubes -- Depth Sounding, Lake Windermere -- The Owls -- Ten Typically Geological Suicides -- Halcyon July in Algoma -- Demon Pond -- The Lynx in the Rapids -- November -- Winter Solstice -- Winter Hawk -- The World Poem -- Hollow Wind,Empty Stars -- Seven Electrical Angels -- Gravid Lux -- Fitting the Language Prosthesis -- Language Acquisition Trauma -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- Books in the Laurier Poetry Series
• Sommario/riassunto: A four-time Governor General’s-award nominee for both poetry and non-fiction, Christopher Dewdney is celebrated internationally as a writer and a visionary and is best known for his particular imagining of place and memory. Beginning with Paleozoic fossil formations in southwestern Ontario and moving through eons of natural history to cityscapes and the digital present, Dewdney’s poetics encapsulate often surreal experiences from radical and epiphenomenal perspectives. His writing vibrates in a standing wave between science and art, reason and myth—embedding geology, neurophysiology, linguistics, and post-digital technology within a play of transitory viewpoints. Children of the Outer Dark provides a geological survey of Dewdney’s poetic strata. The poems selected, along with their order of presentation, serve a critical function to mine diverse layers of development in Dewdney’s career. This collection will reward all those who seek inspiration and will provide teachers, students, and other writers with a short natural history of one of Canadas essential poetic minds.
• Titolo autorizzato: Children of the further dark
• ISBN: 1-55458-715-8; 1-280-90802-5; 9786610908028; 1-55458-102-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809964303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Laurier poetry series