Thinking and Singing
edited by Tim Lilburn
contributors:
Tim Lilburn
Robert Bringhurst
Dennis Lee
Don MacKay
Jan Zwicky
ISBN 9781896951386 | 5.5" x 7.5" | TPB with French Flaps | $24.95
Categories:Non-Fiction - Creative/Essays/Letters
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Synopsis
Investigations into the role and importance of poetry in the culture of the mind and consciousness by some of our foremost practitioners of the art. Tim Lilburn and his interlocutors have been carrying on their "five-pointed conversation" about the relationship between poetry and philosophy for over a decade. The results of the moveable discussion have been delivered in a collection of impecably written essays, each one stamped with the artistic personality of the author.Contributor Bios:
Robert Bringhurst is the author of a work of cultural anthropology and has translated two volumes of narrative poetry from Haida. He lives on the British Columbia Coast.
Dennis Lee is the author of the Governor General's Literary Award-Winning Civil Elegies and Other Poems, as well as many other collections of poetry and essays about poetry. Dennis Lee is the first poet laureate of Toronto.
Don MacKay has won the Governor General's Literary Award twice, for Nightfield (1991) and, most recently, for Another Gravity (2000). He is one of the publishers of Brick Books and lives in Victoria, B.C.
Jan Zwicky won the Governor General's Literary Award for Songs for Relinquishing the Earth (1999). She lives in Victoria, where she teaches philosophy at the University of Victoria.
