Lyric Ecology: Essays in Honour of Jan Zwicky - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1897151772 ISBN 13: 9781897151778

Verlag: Cormorant Books, 2010

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What would you have if you had the p layful intricacy of Mozart, the intultive rigour of Wittgenstein, and John Muir'slove of the earth? You would have the poetry of Jan Zwicky---Roo Borson

In Lyric Ecology editor's Mark Dicknson and Clare Goulet have assembled a marvelous set of mediations' on the work of the unique poet philosopher and intellectual pioneer Jan Zwicky, Trained as an analytic philosopher and a brilliant Wittgenstenian Zwicky as the poet's ability to question her own assertions at every step showing us that everything we see could also be otherswise. In keeping with the spirit of difference and complexity tht is Zwicky's the contributors chosen come from a wide variety of fields and positions and their essays offer brilliant insights into Zwicky's oeuvre as well as into the larger question, what is a poetics today and how does it relate to philosophy, to anthropology and to the life sciences? A genuinely, provocative and timely book.---Marjorie Perloff author of Wittgenstein's Ladder Poetic language and the Strangenes of the Ordinary; Professor of merita of English and Comparative Literature Stanford University

Where of one cannot speak there of one must be silent or so we have heard. Perhaps however, there are ways of spekaing that do not break the silence, but rather invite the silence itself to come to voice. Jan Zwicky is an exquisite poet-philosopher with a classical musician's feel for the rhythm and melody through her as she thinks and dreams. Her pellucid craft has nourished wordsmiths in many fields: some of their voices conjoin in this wonderful book tatisman of earthly intelligence.---David Abram, author of the Spell of the Sensuous and Becoming Animal.

"The gift of lyric is to see the whole in the particular; and in so doing, to bring the preciousness, which is the losability, of the world, into clear focus." So says Jan Zwicky, a musician, philosopher, and poet whose eleven books redefine thinking as not only reasoned analysis but perception, remembering, astonishment, emotion, the connection of this to that. In doing so, they remind us how the play of thought is central to being human. These works have lifted her to the heights of several fields. In a single year she was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Awards in two categories: non-fiction (philosophy) for Wisdom & Metaphor and poetry for Robinson's Crossing. She received the award in 1999 for Songs for Relinquishing the Earth. Her seminal Lyric Philosophy (1992) has just been released in a new edition (2010), and her influence on Canadian philosophy is immense.

Lyric Ecology: An Appreciation of the Work of Jan Zwicky is the first formal measure of her work and a testament to her influence. With original contributions from poets, musicians, philosophers, and colleagues, this collection illuminates many particular angles in the unique geometry of her thought. New readers and old will be amazed by the grace and clarity of her thinking

Biografía del autor:

Mark Dickinson finished doctoral work on the poetics of green consciousness in 2007 and is a research associate at the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies at Trent University. His essays and reviews on Canadian literature have appeared in The Walrus, The Times of London, Green Letters and elsewhere
Clare Goulet has edited manuscripts in poetry and poetics for Canadian small presses since 1996 and served for nine years on the editorial collective at Brick Books; she teaches poetry and creative writing in the English department at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Mark Dickinson has lived in British Columbia, Ontario, and Indonesia. He received his Ph.D. from Trent University, where he is now a Sessional Instructor in the Department of Indigenous Studies.

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• Verlag: Cormorant Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1897151772
• ISBN 13: 9781897151778
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
• Herausgeber: Dickinson Mark, Goulet Clare