Songs for Relenquishing the Earth
Title | Songs for Relenquishing the Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Zwicky |
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ISBN | 9781926829098 |
Songs for Relinquishing the Earth
Title | Songs for Relinquishing the Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Zwicky |
Publisher | London, Ont. : Brick Books |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Poetry |
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Poetry. Winner of the 1999 Governor General's Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the 1999 Pat Lowther Award and the 1999 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry (BC Book Prize). SONGS FOR RELINQUISHING THE EARTH contains many poems of praise and grief for the imperiled earth drawing frequently on Jan Zwicky's experience as a musician and philosopher and on the landscapes of the prairies and rural Ontario. SONGS FOR RELINQUISHING THE EARTH was first published by the author in 1996 as a handmade book, each copy individually sewn for its reader in response to a request. It appeared between plain covers on recycled stock, with a small photo (of lavender fields) pasted into each copy. The only publicity was word of mouth. Part of Jan Zwicky's reason for having the author be the maker and distributor of the book was a desire to connect the acts of publication and publicity with the initial act of composition, to have a book whose public gestures were in keeping with the intimacy of the art. She also believed the potential audience was small enough that she could easily sew enough copies to fill requests as they came in. While succeeding in recalling poetry's public life to its roots, she was wrong about the size of that audience and her ability to keep up with demand as word spread, Hence, this facsimile edition. In publishing it, Brick Books has attempted to remain as faithful as possible to the spirit of those original gestures, while making it possible for more readers to have access to this remarkable book.
Wisdom & Metaphor
Title | Wisdom & Metaphor PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Zwicky |
Publisher | Brush Education |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2014-04-17 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1550595652 |
In the foreword to Wisdom & Metaphor, Jan Zwicky observes that “those who think metaphorically are enabled to think truly, because the shape of their thinking echoes the shape of the world.” Wisdom & Metaphor explores the ways we come to understand the world through analogical structures, and the relation of this form of knowing to conventional epistemology and ontology. Zwicky uses the nature of the book itself, with its facing pages, to create resonant structures of aphorism and quotation which allow the reader to experience the kind of thinking she describes. The author’s wide-ranging influences, coupled with an understated, largely spatial, style of discourse, make this a remarkably original approach to long-standing questions about meaning and language. It offers a unique and compelling argument for the fundamental importance of metaphor to philosophy.
Earth Songs
Title | Earth Songs PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Chapin Smith |
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Pages | 134 |
Release | 1910 |
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Robinson's Crossing
Title | Robinson's Crossing PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Zwicky |
Publisher | London, Ont. : Brick Books |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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The poems in this book arise from Robinson's Crossing - the place where the railway ends and European settlers arriving in northern Alberta had to cross the Pembina River and advance by wagon or on foot. How have we crossed into this country, with what violence and what blind love? Robinson's Crossing enacts the pause at the frontier, where we reflect on the realities of colonial experience, but also on the nature of living here- on historical dwelling itself. In long meditative narratives and shorter probing lyrics, Jan Zwicky shows us-as she has in her celebrated Lyric Philosophy and the Governor General's award-winning Songs for Relinquishing the Earth - how music means and meaning is musical. My great- grandmother slept in a boxcar on the night before she made the crossing. The steel ended in Sangudo then, there was no trestle on the Pembina, no siding on the other side. They crossed by ferry, and went on by cart through bush, the same eight miles. Another family legend has it that she stood there in the open doorway of the shack and said, "You told me, Ernest, it had windows and a floor." - from "Robinson's Crossing"
Songs of the Arcturians
Title | Songs of the Arcturians PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Pereira |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2011-03-15 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 1451643721 |
In 1987, medical transcriptionist Patricia Pereira suddenly started receiving telepathic communications from the star Arcturus and was requested to begin a series of galactically inspired manuscripts. The mission of this series of books is to awaken us to our individual and collective spiritual obligation for the health and well-being of our planet and all creatures who live upon her. Philosophical in cope, the essays in these books provide pragmatic, practical suggestions for emotional, mental physical, and spiritual transformation. They remind us of our familial relationships to beings of light who inhabit the great star nations. This book, the first in a series of four, provides practical suggestion to help us shift our emotional, physical, and spiritual states so that we can prepare to take our future place in the Universal Community.
Wittgenstein Elegies
Title | Wittgenstein Elegies PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Zwicky |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781771313476 |
Poetry. Philosophy. New and revised edition of an early work by the Governor General's Award-winning poet. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the last of our six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This edition of WITTGENSTEIN ELEGIES features an expansive Introduction by Sue Sinclair, a new Afterword by the author and a new cover and design by the renowned typographer Robert Bringhurst. First published in 1986, WITTGENSTEIN ELEGIES is a polyphonic poem in five parts. It establishes the parameters of a long conversation between logic and the lyre that has continued over multiple books and in multiple genres. Long out of print, this revised edition is both a must-have for Zwicky's readers and a perfect introduction to her work. Only what is simple is hidden: the leaf in spring, this gesture, the mind of God. "The Death of George Trakl" Praise for WITTGENSTEIN ELEGIES: "Zwicky shows us that there is a way of speaking that leaves room for what cannot be spoken." Sue Sinclair, from the Introduction."