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Whistle stops : a locomotive serial poem / Emily Izsak ; Garry Thomas Morse, editor.
- Title
- Whistle stops : a locomotive serial poem / Emily Izsak ; Garry Thomas Morse, editor.
- Author
- Izsak, Emily
- Publication
- Winnipeg, Manitoba : Signature Editions, [2017]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR9199.4.I97 W45 2017 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Morse, Garry Thomas
- Description
- 83 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Whistle Stops: A Locomotive Serial Poem occurs over a series of train rides between Toronto and London, Ontario. Each segment of the poem, marked by a time stamp and train number, occupies one train ride. Jack Spicer's concept of serial poetry combines with Charles Olson's "projective verse" in a dynamic that resembles the momentum of a train as it carries the poetry speaker toward and away from her love interest. Informed by Philip Larkin, Thomas Hardy, and Allen Ginsberg whose poetry incorporated the train as a phallus image into the railway poem tradition, Izsak responds to critiques of a poetic movement she clearly revers with unbridled and surreal female sexuality. It is an unapologetically female addition to a movement that is and should be still in motion."--
- Subject
- Serial poetry
- Genre/Form
- Poetry
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781773240053
- 1773240056
- OCLC
- 968777070
- SCSB-12025199
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library