Research Catalog

Title

Earth words : conversing with three sages / John Reibetanz.

Author

Reibetanz, John, 1944-

Publication

• Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Description

xii, 116 pages; 20 cm.

Summary

"If "poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead," as Seamus Heaney put it, Earth Words breaks bread with three earlier writers through the glosa, a poetic form that unfolds as a dialogue. The collection inscribes a series of concentric circles, moving outwards from the eleventh-century world of Wang An-shih through the nineteenth century of Henry Thoreau and into the twentieth century with Emily Carr. Though the environmental and political problems of the twenty-first century feel unique, the figures in this book are met with similar challenges. Wang's writings embody an ideal relationship between self and nature, preserving a sense of rootedness in times resembling the upheavals of the Trump era. This relationship is confirmed in conversations with Thoreau, whose closeness to nature provides an antidote to our age's dependence on digital forms of communication. He also grapples with slavery and the failure to respect the full humanity of Indigenous peoples, struggles that ripple out into the present. Emily Carr's writings and art enter into Indigenous cultures and witness the enduring value of their way of looking at nature. She realizes that the impulse to express one's being creatively runs through the entire natural world. Culminating in this realization, the concentric circles of Earth Words broaden out to include its twenty-first-century readers as well as its writers in a vision of creative growth."--

Series Statement

The Hugh MacLennan poetry series

Uniform Title

Hugh MacLennan poetry series.

Subject

• Wang, Anshi, 1021-1086 > Poetry
• Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 > Poetry
• Carr, Emily, 1871-1945 > Poetry
• Wang, Anshi, 1021-1086
• Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
• Carr, Emily, 1871-1945

Genre/Form

• Nature poetry.
• Poetry.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic formats.

Contents

I. Talking with Wang An-shih -- II. Walking with Henry Thoreau -- III. Looking with Emily Carr.

Call Number

JFC 22-229

ISBN

• 0228009014
• 9780228009016

OCLC

1241730310

Author

Reibetanz, John, 1944- author.

Title

Earth words : conversing with three sages / John Reibetanz.

Publisher

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Hugh MacLennan poetry series

Hugh MacLennan poetry series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats

Issued also in electronic formats.

Other Form:

Online version: Reibetanz, John, 1944- Earth words. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021 0228010098 9780228010098 (OCoLC)1253758919

Research Call Number

JFC 22-229