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  • Poems for a Small Park

    by E.D. Blodgett ...
    Series series Mingling Voices
    This collection by well-known Edmonton poet, E.D. Blodgett, is an ode to the wisdom and divinity of silence. The poet muses on the quiet of the outdoors and the mysterious relationship that exists between spaces of silence within a city's limits. Most of the short lyrics that make up this sublime collection were written first in English and French before being translated into Cree, Michif, Chinese ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Praha

    Translated by Marzia Paton ...
    Series series Mingling Voices
    Prompted by renowned poet E.D. Blodgett's deep love for and intimate experience of Prague, Praha is a poetic homage to the legendary city's vital spirit. As they build on one another, the poems in the collection lift the reader over the threshold of purely mythic understanding and into the heart of one of Europe's loveliest and most venerable cities. Each poem is accompanied by a translation into ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Songs for Dead Children

    by E.D. Blodgett ...
    Series series Robert Kroetsch Series
    In a series of poems inspired by Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, E.D. Blodgett searches for meaning amidst grief. In the contemplative gentleness of his words, he finds the special light children possess in their state of unknowing as they encounter the world. These sparse poems move through acceptance and resignation to the solace that exists in the word. Blodgett's poetry will speak to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • as if

    by E.D. Blodgett ...
    Series series Robert Kroetsch Series
    as if there could be no other memory a tree invisible remembering itself In as if, E.D. Blodgett takes readers on journeys of contemplation in which he re-imagines the lyric form. Each line leaves the reader breathless as it runs into the next to form a continuous cycle, a continued breath. The delicate syntax of each piece pushes one forward, ever forward. The poems are Dantesque, leading the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Apostrophes VIII

    Nothing Is But You and I

    by E.D. Blodgett ...
    Series series Robert Kroetsch Series
    The late sun falls slowly into the afternoon of your eyes, and there it pauses as one might pause to take a breath —from “Lost” Nothing Is But You and I, the breathtaking final volume in the Apostrophes series, reveals poet E.D. Blodgett at his most accomplished. Lyrical grace meets exquisite technique as Blodgett fathoms intimacy, knowledge, and being. The poems allow us to listen to one side of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Ex Nihilo

    A bilingual collection of renga poetry by two of Canada's most celebrated poets in English and in French, each writing in his respective language in response to the other. A project of discourse itself, shared in dialogue between two poets, as they explore Novalis’ definition of poetry as “the truly absolute real.” The poetic act is world-changing, the agglomeration of atoms as they fall through ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Ex Nihilo

    A bilingual collection of renga poetry by two of Canada's most celebrated poets in English and in French, each writing in his respective language in response to the other. A project of discourse itself, shared in dialogue between two poets, as they explore Novalis’ definition of poetry as “the truly absolute real.” The poetic act is world-changing, the agglomeration of atoms as they fall through ... Read more

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  • The Love Songs of the Carmina Burana

    Edited by James J. Wilhelm ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1987, this book contains the Love Sgons of the Carmina Burana, alongisde a select bibliography and textual notes. The collection of poems now known as the Carmina was given its name by Schmeller in 1847, and the Carmina Burana comprises the best and most representative products of goliardism and remains the definitive manifestation of the goliardic movement. ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Silence, the Word and the Sacred

    Edited by E.D. Blodgett, Harold Coward ...
    The result of a dialogue between poets and scholars on the meaning and making of the sacred, this book endeavours to determine how the sacred emerges in sacred script as well as in poetic discourse. It ranges through scholarship in areas as apparently disparate as postmodernism and Buddhism. The perspectives developed are various and without closure, locating the sacred in modes as diverse as ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Romance of Flamenca

    Edited by E. D. Blodgett ...
    Series series Library of Medieval Literature
    Variously described as a comedy of manners, a psychological romance, and a type of fabliau, the 13th-century narrative Flamenca is the best medieval romance written in Occitan. Its uniqueness springs from qualities that anticipate the preoccupations of modern-day narrative. Not content with being a love story fraught with risk and intrigue, the poem is layered with responses to the troubadour ... Read more

    $310.00 USD

  • Dramatic Licence

    Translating Theatre from One Official Language to the Other in Canada

    Translated by Richard Lebeau ...
    Translation is tricky business. The translator has to transform the foreign to the familiar while moving and pleasing his or her audience. Louise Ladouceur knows theatre from a multi-dimensional perspective that gives her research a particular authority as she moves between two of the dominant cultures of Canada: French and English. Through the analysis of six plays from each linguistic repertoire ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    On Leaves and Flowers and Trees is an inspirational, thought-provoking poetry book with poems featuring such topics as the silence of a field of barley, the infinite beauty of a fluttering butterfly, and always, the glory of God.Fr. Ralph Wright, who is a poet of great distinction, pens works that reflect his knowledge of and respect for the masters. His images are both beautiful and startling; ... Read more

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