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Sharon Thesen
Sharon Thesen was born in Tisdale, Saskatchewan in 1946. She moved to the British Columbia Interior in 1952 and lived in Prince George and Kamloops before settling in Vancouver in 1966. She is the author of several books of poetry and the former editor of the Capilano Review. She currently teaches English at Capilano College in North Vancouver and writes reviews for the Vancouver Sun.
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Sharon Thesen was born in Tisdale, Saskatchewan in 1946. She moved to the British Columbia Interior in 1952 and lived in Prince George and Kamloops before settling in Vancouver in 1966. She is the author of several books of poetry and the former editor of the Capilano Review. She currently teaches English at Capilano College in North Vancouver and writes reviews for the Vancouver Sun.
Working in the expansive formats of the long poem and poetic sequence, each of these 16 Canadian poets creates a Wordworthian autobiography of consciousness. Robin Blaser makes a single image--a moth--into an emblem of change in his own imagination and experience by placing that image in a series of contexts that shift over time. Blaser's moth enters his poem trapped in a piano in an ``unblossoming'' world, only to escape during spring, its liberation occasioning the ``intense, / interior monologue'' that constitutes the poem itself. Here as elsewhere the movement of the poetry is one of dilation. While for Christopher Dewdney this results in dense, prosaic lines--``Fireflies pinpoint cool luminous ideas in the neural foliage of dreams''--for Lola Lemire Tostevin it translates into single-word lines that carefully chart a foetus's development: ``brain / blooms / white / webs / hemmed / in / spheres.'' Thesen, a poet and critic, has collected poems that, whether stark or excessive, risk the tidy insights of the lyric for the shambling discoveries achieved through time and space--with satisfying results.
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- PublisherTalonbooks
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0889104077
- ISBN 13 9780889104075
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages384
- EditorThesen Sharon
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. A bit of corner wear on DJ with crease on lower right corner, otherwise an unmarked copy. The long poem, nowadays, is the talk of various discourses with each other: A poem is a small painting, a long poem is a mural. The second edition of The New Long Poem Anthology is an irreplaceable roadmap of a vital and powerful poetic form, a record of the most seductive and sustained singing talk in postmodern Canadian writing. Edited by Sharon Thesen, this collection of long poems; longer works; sequential poems; extended poems; and serial, lengthy or longish poems extend the geography of postmodern Canadian poetry as it was laid out in 1979, exemplifying Michael Ondaatjes early observation that the most interesting work being done by poets today can be found within the structure of the long poem. With a statement of poetics and short bibliography from each author, the second edition of The New Long Poem Anthology includes work by Anne Carson, Christopher Dewdney, Lisa Robertson, Jeff Derksen, Don McKay, Erin Mouré, Patrick Friesen, Steve McCaffery, George Bowering, Dionne Brand, Louis Dudek, Diana Hartog, Roy Kiyooka, Robert Kroetsch, Daphne Marlatt, David McFadden, Barry McKinnon, bpNichol, Michael Ondaatje, Lola Lemire Tostevin, Fred Wah, Phyllis Webb, Robin Blaser, and Yolande Villemaire. Seller Inventory # 006675
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