Chamber Music: The Poetry of Jan Zwicky (Laurier Poetry)

Chamber Music: The Poetry of Jan Zwicky (Laurier Poetry)

Arcing across thirty years and seven volumes, Jan Zwickyâ€™s poetry has always been acutely musical (and sensitive to the silence out of which music comes). In the compositions in Chamber Music, the first anthology of Zwickyâ€™s poems, one may perceive the attunement of her vocations: poet, philosopher, violinist. Her poetry both praises and relinquishes the earth, bearing witness to the fierce skies of the prairies and the freezing rain of the West Coast. Enacting the virtue of clarity prized and defended by her explicitly philosophical work, this poetry is both resonant and integrated. It is also formally diverse, ranging from the singular focus of the lyric ode to suites of variations and fugal structures, from polyphonic textures to the sprawling reach of narrative gestures. Throughout, one feels the deft hand of an adept using powerful metaphors to explore themes of colonial violence, environmental devastation, spiritual catastrophe, and transformation.

Resisting Western philosophyâ€™s exclusion of imagination from civic life, Zwickyâ€™s poetry is noteworthy for the tension it achieves between the abstract and the personal, the general and the particular. Meditating repeatedly on themes of love and grief, this poetry is at once passionately committed to the lucidity of its utterances and the fidelity of its images.
Country USA
Brand Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Manufacturer Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781771120913
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Manufacturer	Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781771120913
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Chamber Music: The Poetry of Jan Zwicky (Laurier Poetry)

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