| Little Eurekas: A Decade's Thoughts on Poetry Contributor(s): Sarah, Robyn (Author) |
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ISBN: 1897231296 ISBN-13: 9781897231296 Publisher: Biblioasis OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2007 Annotation: Little Eurekas: A Decades Thoughts on Poetry is a reader-friendly miscellany of essays, appreciations, reviews, and conversations. Published in newspapers and literary magazines over the past ten years, and addressed to a broad audience, these are pieces that will resonate equally with the lay poetry lover and the specialist. With new material to contextualize individual pieces and weave them together, the collection explores all aspects of a life in poetry: reading it, writing it, teaching it, editing it, publishing it, reviewing it. In lively and lucid prose, Robyn Sarah reflects on her experience in all of these areas, sharing her convictions, her enthusiasms, her gripes, and her passion for the subject. A bonus section, Collaborations, includes voices of other Canadian poets Sarah has engaged with, among them Steven Heighton, Eric Ormsby, Dennis Lee, and Robert Bringhurst. Little Eurekas is an invitation to poetry, a book full of variety and surprise. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | Canadian - Literary Criticism | Reference |
| Dewey: 811.009 |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.89" W x 8.66" (0.85 lbs) 276 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
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| Publisher Description: A reader-friendly miscellany of essays, appreciations, reviews, and conversations, published in newspapers and literary magazines over the past ten years, these are pieces that will resonate equally with the lay poetry lover and the specialist. This collection explores all aspects of a life in poetry: reading it, writing it, teaching it, editing it, publishing it, reviewing it. |