Inside the Poem Essays and Poems in Honour of Donald Stephens
by New, William H.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1993-01-14
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
Inside the Poem is a book of poems and essays. It emphasizes the range of poetry in Canada and demonstrates numerous contemporary approaches to the reading of individual poems. The collection brings together twenty-eight new poems by such writers as Daniel David Moses, P.K. Page, Al Purdy, Lola Lemire Tostevin, Fred Wah, and Phyllis Webb and twenty-seven essays by such writers as Diana Brydon, Manina Jones, Pauline Butling, George Woodcock, Sandra Djwa, and Stephen Scobie. The essays use a variety of reading techniques--historical, feminist, political, semiotic, biographical, linguistic, and structural--to discuss the language and impact of poetry, its imaginative force, and social preoccupations. The collection, which honors the career of Donald Stephens, is a useful guide to the art of the poem in Canada and a valuable handbook for those who want to read poetry well.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Texts | |
| Notes Towards a Poem That Can Never Be Written | p. 2 |
| Just Left or The Night Margaret Laurence Died | p. 5 |
| David | p. 6 |
| The Bear on the Delhi Road | p. 12 |
| Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater | p. 13 |
| Sunday Morning | p. 14 |
| "Three lecture hours per week" | p. 15 |
| Portrait of the Poet as Landscape | p. 16 |
| from Seed Catalogue | p. 21 |
| The City of the End of Things | p. 23 |
| Winter 45 | p. 25 |
| Whatever Else Poetry Is Freedom | p. 26 |
| from Call my People Home | p. 28 |
| The Madwomen of the Plaza de Mayo | p. 29 |
| from Booking passage | p. 30 |
| Portrait of Marina | p. 33 |
| Darwin's Theology? | p. 35 |
| Audacity | p. 35 |
| Lost Things, from Swann | p. 37 |
| The Lonely Land | p. 38 |
| from Breathin' My Name with a Sigh | p. 40 |
| from Gramsci x 3 | p. 41 |
| "Krakatoa" and "Spiritual Storm" | p. 44 |
| "The Mind of the Poet" | p. 46 |
| Discussions of the Texts | |
| What's in a Genre: Margaret Atwood's "Notes Towards a Poem" | p. 48 |
| The Shadow of Death: Margaret Avison's "Just Left or The Night Margaret Laurence Died" | p. 55 |
| Earle Birney's "David" and the Song of Roland: A Source Study | p. 60 |
| Earle Birney's Equivocal Dance: The Cultural Politics of "The Bear on the Delhi Road" | p. 70 |
| Reading Dionne Brand's "Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater" | p. 81 |
| Robert Bringhurst's "Sunday Morning": A Dialogue | p. 88 |
| Going Down into Death: A Reading of "'Three lecture hours per week'" | p. 101 |
| Reading A.M. Klein's "Portrait of the Poet as Landscape" | p. 107 |
| Rooting the Borrowed Word: Appropriation and Voice in Kroetsch's "Seed Catalogue" | p. 113 |
| "The City of the End of Things": The Significance of Lampman's Sound and Fury | p. 123 |
| How Do You Read a RiddIe?: Patrick Lane's Winter | p. 130 |
| "Scanned and Scorned": Freedom and Fame in Layton | p. 139 |
| Re-reading Livesay's "Call My People Home" | p. 151 |
| Interim Conclusion: Reading Eli Mandel's "The Madwomen of the Plaza de Mayo" | p. 160 |
| 'From Radical to Integral': Daphne Marlatt's "Booking Passage" | p. 167 |
| P.K. Page's "Portrait of Marina" | p. 174 |
| On Purdy's Galapagos | p. 177 |
| Boldness, Audacity, Insolence: A Reading of F.R. Scott's "Audacity" | p. 186 |
| Reassembling Fragments: Susanna Moodie, Carol Shields, and Mary Swann | p. 196 |
| "Who Is This Man Smith?": Second and Third Thoughts on Canadian Modernism | p. 205 |
| "mother/father things I am also": Fred(,) Wah, Breathin' His Name with a Sigh | p. 216 |
| Meaning in Numbers: Wilfred Watson's Gramsci x 3 | p. 225 |
| Webb's Book of Revelation: Lifting the Lid Off "'Krakatoa' and 'Spiritual Storm'" | p. 230 |
| The Poet of the Mind | p. 246 |
| New Poems | |
| th inevitabilitee uv tossd salads dictating plesur | p. 256 |
| Tranquille | p. 257 |
| The Quiet Sunshine. . . | p. 259 |
| A Brief History of the Horse | p. 260 |
| Dragon | p. 262 |
| A Mandala of Birds and Feathers | p. 263 |
| Postcard from Duck Lake | p. 264 |
| Ars Poetica | p. 265 |
| There Is a Kind of Music | p. 266 |
| blue girl | p. 267 |
| The White Bear Burning | p. 267 |
| At the Solstice | p. 269 |
| Psalm for Don Stephens | p. 270 |
| At Night the Dew | p. 272 |
| Blues for a Barn | p. 273 |
| Holding Out Tomatoes | p. 273 |
| After Hearing Satyagraha, an Opera, by Philip Glass | p. 274 |
| Night | p. 277 |
| On My Workroom Wall | p. 278 |
| Wedding Feast for One Fork | p. 279 |
| Rumania on the BBC | p. 280 |
| from Cartouches: hieroglyphs of a visit | p. 281 |
| The Pemberton-Mount Currie Valley | p. 284 |
| A Man and His Flute | p. 285 |
| from Music at the Heart of Things | p. 287 |
| Correcting 120 Essays on Poetry | p. 288 |
| Memo from Hubert Aquin, 1986 | p. 289 |
| Self-admonitions | p. 290 |
| Epilogue | |
| The Masks of Don Stephens | p. 294 |
| Notes on Poets and Critics | p. 299 |
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