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| Title: | Children of the Outer Dark
: The Poetry of Christopher Dewdney |
| Series: | (Laurier Poetry Series) |
| Author: | Karl E Jirgens |
| ISBN: | 0889205159 : 9780889205154 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 58 |
| Weight: | .129 Kg. |
| Published: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press - April 2007 |
| List Price: | 8.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Works by individual poets: from c1900- |
A four-time Governor General's-award nominee for both poetry and non-fiction, Christopher Dewdney is celebrated internationally as a writer and a visionary and is best known for his particular imagining of place and memory. Beginning with Paleozoic fossil formations in south-western Ontario and moving through eons of natural history to cityscapes and the digital present, Dewdney's poetics encapsulate often surreal experiences from radical and epiphenomenal perspectives. His writing vibrates in a standing wave between science and art, reason and myth -- embedding geology, neurophysiology, linguistics, and post-digital technology within a play of transitory viewpoints. "Children of the Further Dark" provides a geological survey of Dewdneys poetic strata. The poems selected, along with their order of presentation, serve a critical function to mine diverse layers of development in Dewdneys career. This collection will reward all those who seek inspiration and will provide teachers, students, and other writers with a short natural history of one of Canada's essential poetic minds.
