Bolder Flights: Essays on the Canadian Long Poem (Reappraisals: Canadian Writers Series)

A growing number of literary historians and critics now recognize the contemporary long poem as a distinctively Canadian genre. This collection of essays leads the reader to a deeper understanding of Canadian literary cultures in terms of their local intimacies and idiosyncrasies as well as in their national contexts. A Growing Number Of Literary Historians And Critics Now Recognize The Long Poem As A Distinctively Canadian Genre. This Has Been Particularly Evidenced Through The Recurrence Of Documentary Aspects Addressing Both Topographical And Memorial Functions. Together These Features Serve As Indicators That Lead The Reader To A Deeper Understanding Of Canadian Literary Cultures Both In Terms Of Their Local Intimacies And Idiosyncrasies As Well As In Their National Contexts.--jacket. Preface / Frank M. Tierney, Angela Robbeson -- Colonial Colonizing: An Introductory Survey Of The Canadian Long Poem / D. M. R. Bentley -- Writing And Rewriting Adam Hood Burwell's Talbot Road / Adrian Fowler -- A Richer, Variegated Vest: Dressing Nature In Early Canadian Long Poems / Wanda Campbell -- Questioning The Canon: Early Long Poems By Canadian Women / Margot Kaminski -- Pratt's Modernism, Or Digging In The Strata / Sandra Djwa -- Virtu(e)al History: Interpolation In Pratt's Brebeuf And His Brethren / Gwendolyn Guth -- The Contemporary Canadian Long Poem As System: Freisen, Atwood, Kroetsch, Arnason, Mcfadden / Reinhold Kramer -- David Arnason's Marsh Burning: Beginnings / Karen Clavelle -- Sharon's Bottle, Malcolm's Ukelele: The Machinery Of Desire In Confabulations / Gary Geddes -- Fred Wah And The Radical Long Poem / Charlene Diehl-jones -- The Voices Of Elegy: Or, Hurtin' Songs For Bronwen Wallace / Stephen Scobie -- Kristjana Gunnars' Carnival Of Longing. A Passionate Reading / Meira Cook -- Accessing The Criminal Paradise In Dennis Cooley's Bloody Jack And Other Outlaw Fictions / Andrew Stubbs. Edited And With A Preface By Frank M. Tierny And Angela Robbeson. Includes Bibliographical References.