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Revisiting the Crown of Literature
Poets are not readily recognized at galas and award ceremonies; their works are not featured in newspapers or discussed at book clubs. Rarely are they studied in depth in high school. In Canada, the media further exacerbates the problem by giving the winners of fiction prizes top billing over those who write in other genres.
Mar 15, 2011, 21:10
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Anne Cimon: Treasures from the Poetic Store (tribute to Sonja Skarstedt)
As a poet, Sonja Skarstedt was present, open to the now in the material world that she observed so minutely. She recorded people, places and things in a rhythmic style, a knowingness of where she was. Joy and good humour in her poetry gave a lift to the reader.
Jul 28, 2010, 05:18
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Stephen Morrissey: A Poet's Journey
My test of poetry has always been when hearing or reading someone else’s poems, am I moved to want to write a poem of my own? If I am, then the poem is a source of inspiration for me. Inspiration means that the poem is inspiring, it breathes Spirit into the reader. The experience of writing poems is life affirming and it is always exciting to begin writing a new poem.
Jul 28, 2010, 05:18
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Louis Dudek: The Role of Little Magazines in Canada
The little magazine is a recognizable and peculiar phenomenon associated with the growth of the modern poetry movement in this century. In Canada, this type of magazine can be said to have appeared only after 1940, although a number of forerunners having some claim to be ranked as little magazines appeared earlier. It is with the period after 1940 that the kind of literary activity and movement‑poetry that had arisen in England just before World War I and in America during the 1920s began to flourish in Canada.
Jul 28, 2010, 05:17
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Louis Dudek: Canada’s “Ideogram of Reality
In the final analysis, it is lucidity and concreteness that most readily manifest themselves in Dudek’s work, hence my subtitle, “Ideogram of Reality,” a phrase which comes from his essay “T. S. Eliot.” Finally, to capture both the range and immediacy of Dudek’s thought, I have sprinkled the interview with quotations from a few of his many books of poetry and criticism.
Jul 28, 2010, 05:17
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Louis Dudek: The Ego in History
The Egyptians in their mythology had a visual organ, an Eye, moving about the universe: so that the Eye of God, however you spell it, comes before the “I” of man. In fact, it is some time before the individual poet and artist learns to say “I”.
Jul 28, 2010, 05:17
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Louis Dudek: Functional Poetry
Tell em to open their mouths, you want to see their back teeth, their tonsils. Tell em to say AHHHH. Most Canadian poetry is written with the mouth closed. Ask them to write again when they think they’ve said something straight from the shoulder, no monkey business. Goddamm decoration. All icing and no cake. All cake and no meat. We want something to chew into in a poem, not just words.
Jul 28, 2010, 05:17
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John Harris: Sermon on the Mont: Louis Dudek’s Post-Modernist Cantos (I-VI)
Dudek was able to sustain this literalist faith in poetry and Pound because he was stubborn by nature and because that faith settled in early in his life and in a broader, more dependable, more socially acceptable and ultimately more influential manifestation than Ezra Pound.
Jul 28, 2010, 05:17
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Louis Dudek: Critical Overview and Context
There have been only three major articles published—all in Canadian Literature. Even the reviews are slim. His early books received the same two or three notices one would expect for a new poet, but his later works have seldom done much better.
Jul 28, 2010, 05:17
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Louis Dudek: The Sculpture of Poetry
Now that the feuds have died down it would no longer be appropriate for A. J. M. Smith to cry: “Layton shall tingle in Canadian air / And echo answer Dudek everywhere.” Omitting those polemics and parodies, salutary as they have been in stirring up the potage canadien…
Jul 28, 2010, 05:17
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