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By Word of Mouth [The Poetr...
Dennis Cooley, one of Canada's most prominent poets, says writing becomes political when you play with certain kinds of voices. His poetry has been influenced and inspired by the prairies and other Canadian poets, but he insists on disturbing the formal poetic inheritance he esteems. His engagement with a variety of speaking voices asks that readers question authority and challenge institutional privilege. In By Word of Mouth, a collection from across his career, readers will discover how Cooley returns to the prairie vernacular and speaks to Canadian identity. Poetry, says Cooley, i
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monografia Rebiun28185146 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun28185146 m o d cr -n--------- 070402s2007 onc o 00 0 eng d 1-280-90805-X 9786610908059 1-55458-110-9 1-4294-8035-1 UAM 991008077878104211 MdBmJHUP MdBmJHUP eng 811.54 Cooley, Dennis 1944-) By Word of Mouth electronic resource] The Poetry of Dennis Cooley selected with an introduction by Nicole Markotic and an afterword by Dennis Cooley Waterloo, Ont. Wilfrid Laurier University Press c2007 Waterloo, Ont. Waterloo, Ont. Wilfrid Laurier University Press 1 online resource (85 p.) 1 online resource (85 p.) Text txt computer c online resource cr Laurier poetry series Description based upon print version of record Includes bibliographical references CONTENTS; Foreword, Neil Besner; Biographical Note; Introduction; A Poem for You, Leaving Winnipeg; anaeurysm; "& we are skinbags of heated water dreaming"; in his tangerine skin; the love song of j l krafchenko or the trans canada in (trance crypt; Sonya Orlowsky; Paul sd; Exorcism; I think "ego"; ergo I am; labiarinth; anatomy of love; prairie romance; behind the door; moon musings; holy cow; inner ear; my eye; melodious rhyme; he replies to his critics; breathless; "In Germany cooley is a migrant labourer"; "Wished we had the camera for David"; winnipeg in winter a series of shocking pre-positions"mother tongue"; "this on remembrance weekend"; "bodies are"; jack's dictionary of cunning linguists; blood brothers; red men ace; echolalia; the red /emption of blood; "& not that he's wrong"; "& a crate of apples could i suppose"; "& listening to night sticky with sweat"; after words, by Dennis Cooley; Selected Cooley Poems: Sources Dennis Cooley, one of Canada's most prominent poets, says writing becomes political when you play with certain kinds of voices. His poetry has been influenced and inspired by the prairies and other Canadian poets, but he insists on disturbing the formal poetic inheritance he esteems. His engagement with a variety of speaking voices asks that readers question authority and challenge institutional privilege. In By Word of Mouth, a collection from across his career, readers will discover how Cooley returns to the prairie vernacular and speaks to Canadian identity. Poetry, says Cooley, i English Electronic books 1-55458-007-2 Laurier poetry series