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Lorna Crozier, OC (born 24 May 1948) is a Canadian poet, author, and former chair of the Writing Department at the University of Victoria. [1] [2] She is the author of twenty-five books and was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2011 as one of Canada's pre-eminent poets and for her teaching. Crozier is credited as Lorna Uher on some of ...
One might think of a poem as, in the words of William Carlos Williams, [2] a "machine made of words." [3] A reader analyzing a poem is akin to a mechanic taking apart a machine in order to figure out how it works. There are many different reasons to analyze poetry.
She has edited and co-edited several collections of poetry and is poetry editor for Our Times, Canada's national labour magazine. [ 1 ] In addition to her poetry collections, Hynes published a memoir, Letters from China (Women's Press, 1981) about her experiences as a teacher trainer in China just after the end of the Cultural Revolution .
Ciarán Carson: First Language: Poems, Gallery Books, Wake Forest University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom; Gillian Clarke, The King of Britain's Daughter [11] Blaga Dimitrova, Bulgaria's popular vice president, The Last Rock Eagle, a translation of several of her poems; Carol Ann Duffy, Mean Time, [11] Anvil Press Poetry [12]
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The book is divided into two parts with two long poems that run the length of each section. In part 1, the long poem intersects through the other poems horizontally; in part 2, the long poem intersects vertically. The book was called “a game changer to the Canadian poetry scene.” [13]
Born in Philadelphia and educated at Rutgers University, E. D. Blodgett emigrated to Canada in 1966 to work as a literature professor at the University of Alberta. [1] With his book, Configuration (1982) and other articles Blodgett became instrumental in promoting Comparative Canadian Literature and extending the binary model (English-French) of the Sherbrooke School of Comparative Canadian ...
Children's literature portal; Falling Up is a 1996 poetry collection primarily for children written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein [1] and published by HarperCollins.It is the third poetry collection published by Silverstein, following Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974) and A Light in the Attic (1981), and the final one to be published during his lifetime, as he died just three years after ...