For it is a pleasure and a surprise to breathe : new and selected poems /
"For thirty-five years Gary Barwin has been opening up new ways of being in poetry. In this long-awaited new and selected collection, For It Is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe, Barwin and his editor, Alessandro Porco, have drawn from his extensive writings in previously published books, ch...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Hamilton, ON, Canada :
Buckrider Books,an imprint of Wolsak & Wynn Publishers, Limited,
[2019]
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| Summary: | "For thirty-five years Gary Barwin has been opening up new ways of being in poetry. In this long-awaited new and selected collection, For It Is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe, Barwin and his editor, Alessandro Porco, have drawn from his extensive writings in previously published books, chapbooks, small press works, magazine and journal publications, including unpublishing and uncollected works to create this category-defying book. Over the course of the collection Barwin uses a variety of forms and styles to explore themes from aesthetic investigations to questions of identity and culture, from ecopoetics to questions of language. Throughout Barwin stretches language to its fullest extent, whether he's exploring alternative translations or working with images as poems; he continually moves readers from surprise to delight."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 256 pages : colour illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781928088950 1928088953 |