Author: Frank Bidart File Type: epub The collected works of one of contemporary poetrys most original voicesGathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body into language in contemporary literature. His pages represent the human voice in all its extreme registers, whether its that of the child-murderer Herbert White, the obsessive anorexic Ellen West, the tormented genius Vaslav Nijinsky, or the poets own. And in that embodiment is a transgressive empathy, one that recognizes our wild appetites, the monsters, the misfits, the misunderstood among us and inside us. Few writers have so willingly ventured to the dark places of the human psyche and allowed themselves to be stripped bare on the page with such candor and vulnerability. Over the past half century, Bidart has done nothing less than invent a poetics commensurate with the chaos and appetites of our experience.Half-light encompasses all of Bidarts previous books, and also includes a new collection, Thirst, in which the poet austerely surveys his life, laying it plain for us before venturing into something new and unknown. Here Bidart finds himself a Creature coterminous with thirst, still longing, still searching in himself, one of the queers of the universe.Visionary and revelatory, intimate and unguarded, Bidarts Half-light Collected Poems 1965-2017 are a radical confrontation with human nature, a conflict eternally renewed and reframed, restless line by restless line.**ReviewRelentless and ever willing to face his demons, no matter how terrifying, in the interest of making great art, Bidart is, to my ear, one of the very few major living poets who never wavers, never repeats himself (though he has always orbited the same concerns), and extends his questing and questioning through each new work. This collected poems is an almost overwhelming bounty, a permanent book. Publsihers WeeklyAbout the Author Frank Bidart is the author of Metaphysical Dog (FSG, 2013), Watching the Spring Festival (FSG, 2008), Star Dust (FSG, 2005), Desire (FSG, 1997), and In the Western Night Collected Poems 1965-90 (FSG, 1990). He has won many prizes, including the Wallace Stevens Award, the 2007 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He teaches at Wellesley College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Author: Alex Damm File Type: pdf Gandhi in a Canadian Context examines a range of intriguing and under-studied connections between Indias greatest nationalist leader, Mahatma Gandhi (18691948), and facets of life in Canada, including Gandhis interest in and contact with Canada and Canadians early in the twentieth century, and the implications of Gandhis thinking on a range of issues in Canadian society today. This collection of essays by Canadian scholars explores topics such as Gandhis awareness of Canada the academic study of Gandhi in Canadian higher education and dimensions of Gandhis thought that demand greater attention and have enduring relevance for individuals and communities in Canada. These range from a peace-oriented Islam and participation in direct action campaigns to a more constructive politics and environmental stewardship. This book breaks new ground in the depth of its study of a figure significant for both Canada and the world at large. The themes in this book will be of interest to scholars in Gandhi studies, education, Canadian history, and sociology, as well as to the general reader who seeks to reflect on what traditions of non-violence and conflict resolution championed by Gandhi might contribute to social progress in Canada. **About the Author Alex Damm is an instructor in the Department of Religion and Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Canada). A student of both early Christianity and of modern Indian religions, Damm teaches courses on biblical literature as well as on the life of Gandhi. He is the author of Ancient Rhetoric and the Synoptic Problem Clarifying Markan Priority (Leuven, 2013).