By word of mouth : the poetry of Dennis Cooley
Record details
- ISBN: 6610908052
- ISBN: 9786610908059
- ISBN: 1554581109
- ISBN: 9781554581108
- ISBN: 9781280908057
- ISBN: 128090805X
- ISBN: 1429480351
- ISBN: 9781429480352
- ISBN: 1554580072
- ISBN: 9781554580071
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxii, 61 pages)
remote - Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2007.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. |
System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
Language Note: | English. |
Action Note: | digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Summary:
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, is about ou.