Research Catalog

Title

Writing lovers : reading Canadian love poetry by women / Méira Cook.

Author

Cook, Méira, 1964-

Publication

Montreal ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005.

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Description

xii, 258 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Is it possible to capture something as ephemeral as love with mere words? Meira Cook draws on Lacan, Derrida, Barthes, and Kristeva to wrestle with the theoretical problems of representing the unrepresentable. In Writing Lovers she searches for a language adequate to articulating the discourse of passion, desire, and longing."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Love poetry, Canadian > Women authors > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. The language of love : an oblique beginning -- 2. Love and other unofficial stories : narrative prowling in Kristjana Gunnars' The prowler -- 3. Possessed by love : the metaphoric production of desire in Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I sat down and wept -- 4. In between : Dionne Brand's poetics of love and resistance -- 5. Love letters from an unmade bed : Dorothy Livesay's poetics of disquiet -- 6. On the line : revenge as confessional strategy in Kristjana Gunnars' Carnival of longing and Nicole Markotic's "No goodbye, just:" -- 7. Bone memory : love and breath in Louise Bernice Halfe's Blue marrow -- 8. Speaking in tongues : Daphne Marlatt's answering touch or how to sign a love letter -- 9. Postscript.

ISBN

0773527974

OCLC

• ocm58051840
• SCSB-5188929

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries