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Title: |
Apostrophes VII |
| Sub-title: |
Sleep, You, a Tree |
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| By (author): |
E.D. Blodgett |
| ISBN10-13: |
0888645546 : 9780888645548 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
165x165x25mm |
| Pages: |
88 |
| Weight: |
.122 Kg. |
| Published: |
University of Alberta Press - April 2011 |
| List Price: |
16.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 22 |
| Subjects: |
Poetry : Poetry by individual poets |
| Front Flap: I have always admired E.D. Blodgett's poetry for its intellectual ambition, its refusal to accept the surface of things as their whole story, for its Wallace Stevens-like sensuous engagement with interiority. In Apostrophes VII: Sleep, You, a Tree, Blodgett turns to the impalpable, the richly numinous, not to escape the world, but to make the world more substantial so that it can accommodate all elements of our fullest dwelling, including a hyperbolic span of desire, the swoop of unfettered imagination and our unappeasable loneliness for the innerness of things. This makes his poetry reclamation work, drawing substance and light both into humans and the objects they live among and behold. -Tim Lilburn Back Cover: No one remembers when this dance began, the slow andante in our eyes, their disappearance and return as intimate as breath that we have known since we began to see, the nearest that we think of what we think is infinite. -from "Unknowing" Back Flap: E.D. Blodgett has published numerous books of poetry as well as diverse criticism and literary translations. He is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta. In 1996 he won the Governor General's Award for Poetry for Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano. From 2007 to 2009 he was Edmonton's Poet Laureate. Blodgett lives in Surrey, British Columbia. |
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"The best part is the moment (often a long one) before one begins a poem. It is that state that Keats calls negative capability," and it is a state that simply comes over one and almost dissolves one.' This moment or state leads to a particular sensibility that filters through Blodgett's work. That the world, no matter how brutal and mindless it is tending to be, is a place of incomparable awe." Ariel Gordon, Prairie Books Now Summer 2011
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"[Blodgett's] new collection of unrhymed sonnets, Sleep, You, A Tree, is a long contemplation in seventyeight partswith repeated motifs that include infinity, eternity, silence, unsayability, darkness, whiteness, childhood, paradise, God, moon and starsin which almost every poem includes a tree. Blodgett's weaving of form and content is rare in contemplative poetics.... Blodgett's rhythms, both formal as in traditional sonnets but also relaxed in their line ends and breakup of rhythm, are delicious to the ear. Such poetry is made to read aloud." - BC Bookworld, Autumn 2011
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"Each time [the imagery of these interrelated poems is] transformed into an elegantly satisfying visual music that pulls the consciousness of the willing reader into a fresh perception of the connections among mind, language, and the world." Neil Querengesser, Canadian Literatures 214, Autumn 2012
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Blodgett's weaving of form and content is rare in contemplative poetics.... Blodgett's rhythms, both formal as in traditional sonnets but also relaxed in their line ends and break-up of rhythm, are delicious to the ear. Such poetry is made to read aloud." BC Bookworld
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