{"product_id":"chamber-music-the-poetry-of-jan-zwicky-paperback-softback-9781771120913","title":"Chamber Music; The Poetry of Jan Zwicky (Paperback \/ softback) 9781771120913","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eChamber Music\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Poetry of Jan Zwicky\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJan Zwicky (Author), Darren Bifford (Edited by), Warren Heiti (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781771120913\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 11 December 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e102 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 0.6 cm, 0.2 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eArcing across thirty years and seven volumes, Jan Zwicky's poetry has always been acutely musical (and sensitive to the silence out of which music comes). In the compositions in \u003ci\u003eChamber Music\u003c\/i\u003e, the first anthology of Zwicky's poems, one may perceive the attunement of her vocations: poet, philosopher, violinist. Her poetry both praises and relinquishes the earth, bearing witness to the fierce skies of the prairies and the freezing rain of the West Coast. Enacting the virtue of clarity prized and defended by her explicitly philosophical work, this poetry is both resonant and integrated. It is also formally diverse, ranging from the singular focus of the lyric ode to suites of variations and fugal structures, from polyphonic textures to the sprawling reach of narrative gestures. Throughout, one feels the deft hand of an adept using powerful metaphors to explore themes of colonial violence, environmental devastation, spiritual catastrophe, and transformation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Resisting Western philosophy's exclusion of imagination from civic life, Zwicky's poetry is noteworthy for the tension it achieves between the abstract and the personal, the general and the particular. Meditating repeatedly on themes of love and grief, this poetry is at once passionately committed to the lucidity of its utterances and the fidelity of its images.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChamber Music: The Poetry of Jan Zwicky\u003c\/i\u003e, selected with an introduction by Darren Bifford and Warren Heiti\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeword, \u003ci\u003eNeil Besner\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBiographical Note \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePractising Bach\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage Is Hands\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e Leaving Home\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e Seven Elegies: Robert William Zwicky (1927-1987)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Horse Pull\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYour Body\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eK. 219, Adagio\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Geology of Norway\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrahms' Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCashion Bridge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBill Evans: \"\"Here's That Rainy Day\"\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Beethoven: Op. 95\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Driving Northwest\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Prairie\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Epistemology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e One Version\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Robinson's Crossing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e History\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Another Version\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Glenn Gould: Bach's \"\"Italian\"\" Concerto, BWV 971\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Small song in praise of ears\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Small song for the voice of the nuthatch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Small song: Prairie\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Small song to oneself\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Small song:Mozart\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Small song: Laundry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e Music and Silence: Seven Variations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Late Schubert\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Practising Bach\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Gemini\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e If There Were Two Rivers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e From Distant Lands\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Art of Fugue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Schumann: \u003ci\u003eFantasie\u003c\/i\u003e, Op. 17\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Autobiography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Autumn Again\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e An Abridgement of a Conversation with Jan Zwicky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681262989592,"sku":"9781771120913","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/chamber-music-the-poetry-of-jan-zwicky-paperback-softback-9781771120913","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}