The Letter Box: Selected Poems - Softcover

St Pierre, Paul Matthew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1035895609 ISBN 13: 9781035895601

Verlag: Austin Macauley, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Two definitions: Poetry is human speech. Poetry is maximal language. The Letter Box is both. In the ancient Chinese form Qing Ping, syllabic verse comprising two quatrains (4/5/7/6, 6/6/6/6), the poems are spare and lucid, eminently readable. Yet, dense in syntax, prosody, imagery, and allusion, they can be demanding, lending themselves to contemplation and explication. They are also funny and sardonic. The nostalgic voice, in reference to letters and other old forms, is wry and double-edged. The human speech is primarily mine - of course, the authorial voice. But each poem also has a speaker independent of me. The maximal language? That is also my responsibility. But it is principally your language as interpreters with the power - by reading them aloud - to make the poems your own. The Letter Box Writers, readers, Senders, receivers, Signifiers, signifieds, Once connected us all. Look in the letter box, There you'll find a packet, Open it now, and read My hundred poems for you.

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Paul Matthew St Pierre, retired professor of Australian and Pacific Islands literatures, is the author of The Letter Box: Selected Poems (Austin Macauley Publishers, 2025) and twelve scholarly books on literature, performance, and film. Of dual British and Canadian nationality, he lives on the beach off-grid on Lasqueti Island, British Columbia, with his two hovawarts, where he writes fiction, poetry, and screenplays.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Austin Macauley
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1035895609
• ISBN 13: 9781035895601
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 114
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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