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Description:Gwendolyn MacEwen's poetry is a unique, heady mixture of the mythical and the mundane. No matter how far MacEwen wanders into the past or through the occult, she remains diligently attentive to her present. A passage from the title poem of her collection A Breakfast for Barbarians is an ideal piece of self-description: let us make an anthology of recipes, let us edit for breakfast our most unspeakable appetites-- let us pool spoons, knives and all cutlery in a cosmic cuisine, let us answer hunger with boiled chimera and apocalyptic tea, an arcane salad of spiced bibles, tossed dictionaries-- Volume one of her selected poems, sympathetically compiled by Margaret Atwood and Barry Callaghan, shows the range of MacEwen's brief but incredibly diverse career (the collection is completed by Volume Two: The Later Years). Her lyric poems are accompanied by her verse play Terror and Erebus (a radio drama about the Franklin expedition), and a translation of Yannis Ristos's Helen. Her early works, including the previously unpublished Adam's Alphabet and the chapbooks Selah and The Drunken Clock are briefly represented, but the book is dominated by MacEwen's two most important early collections, The Rising Fire and A Breakfast for Barbarians. The selection is rounded out by The Nine Arcana of the Kings, a sequence of poems steeped in ancient Egypt. MacEwen's fascination with Middle Eastern mythologies means that some of her poems recall those of H.D., but her resemblance to other poets ends there. Her poems aren't all mythological; MacEwen is as likely to find an epiphany in an appendix scar or a conjuror's trick as she is to seek it in ancient Egypt. She writes with the sensitivity to language of a dedicated autodidact--after dropping out of high school, she taught herself Hebrew, Greek, French, and Arabic. These poems, the works of a curious, diligent, and unstifled imagination, offer a strange and vital reconceptualization of contemporary life. --Jack IllingworthWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Gwendolyn MacEwen: Volume 1 (1) (The Early Years). To get started finding Gwendolyn MacEwen: Volume 1 (1) (The Early Years), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Gwendolyn MacEwen's poetry is a unique, heady mixture of the mythical and the mundane. No matter how far MacEwen wanders into the past or through the occult, she remains diligently attentive to her present. A passage from the title poem of her collection A Breakfast for Barbarians is an ideal piece of self-description: let us make an anthology of recipes, let us edit for breakfast our most unspeakable appetites-- let us pool spoons, knives and all cutlery in a cosmic cuisine, let us answer hunger with boiled chimera and apocalyptic tea, an arcane salad of spiced bibles, tossed dictionaries-- Volume one of her selected poems, sympathetically compiled by Margaret Atwood and Barry Callaghan, shows the range of MacEwen's brief but incredibly diverse career (the collection is completed by Volume Two: The Later Years). Her lyric poems are accompanied by her verse play Terror and Erebus (a radio drama about the Franklin expedition), and a translation of Yannis Ristos's Helen. Her early works, including the previously unpublished Adam's Alphabet and the chapbooks Selah and The Drunken Clock are briefly represented, but the book is dominated by MacEwen's two most important early collections, The Rising Fire and A Breakfast for Barbarians. The selection is rounded out by The Nine Arcana of the Kings, a sequence of poems steeped in ancient Egypt. MacEwen's fascination with Middle Eastern mythologies means that some of her poems recall those of H.D., but her resemblance to other poets ends there. Her poems aren't all mythological; MacEwen is as likely to find an epiphany in an appendix scar or a conjuror's trick as she is to seek it in ancient Egypt. She writes with the sensitivity to language of a dedicated autodidact--after dropping out of high school, she taught herself Hebrew, Greek, French, and Arabic. These poems, the works of a curious, diligent, and unstifled imagination, offer a strange and vital reconceptualization of contemporary life. --Jack IllingworthWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Gwendolyn MacEwen: Volume 1 (1) (The Early Years). To get started finding Gwendolyn MacEwen: Volume 1 (1) (The Early Years), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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