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Major, Alice

 
9780888644695: The Occupied World (cuRRents)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0888644698 ISBN 13: 9780888644695
Verlag: University of Alberta Press, 2006

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In ancient Roman times rituals were performed to sanctify the ground on which new cities were founded. With this invocation, space could then be occupied. In her brilliant new collection, Alice Major's poems concern themselves with human occupation: how we occupy cities; how we occupy ourselves as citizens, workers and thinkers; how we occupy mythologies and metaphors; and how we occupy the passage of our lives. Written largely in a public voice, these poems invoke human preoccupations that resonate through landscapes of time and space.

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Alice Major emigrated from Scotland at the age of eight, and grew up in Toronto before coming west to work as a weekly newspaper reporter. She served as the City of Edmonton's first poet laureate from 2005 2007. A widely-published author, she has won many distinctions. Her most recent book, Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science, received the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for non-fiction as well as a National Magazine Award gold medal. Her website is www.alicemajor.com.

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The whole planet a small, throbbing, blinking jukebox floating around the sun. Like the only house in a quiet neighbourhood where a late-night party is going on and people are breaking glass and shouting on the lawn … —from “Messages from Planet E” In ancient Roman times rituals were performed to sanctify the ground on which new cities were founded. With this invocation, space could then be occupied. In this brilliant new collection, Alice Major’s poems concern themselves with human occupation: how we occupy cities; how we occupy ourselves as citizens, workers and thinkers; how we occupy mythologies and metaphors; and how we occupy the passage of our lives. Written largely in a public voice, these poems invoke human preoccupations that resonate through landscapes of time and space. “These are intelligent, evocative poems, meticulously crafted.” –Leslie Greentree Alice Major emigrated from Scotland at the age of eight, and grew up in Toronto before coming west to work as a weekly newspaper reporter in British Columbia. She lives in Edmonton with her husband, David Berger. In 2006, she was appointed the City of Edmonton’s first poet laureate. Front cover image: Lyndal Osborne, High Voltage, (detail) colour lithograph on paper; A/P 1988, (1996.3.2). The University of Alberta Art Collection, Museums and Collections. Used by permission of the artist. Author image: Robert Chelmick, ASA

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Verlag
University of Alberta Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0888644698
ISBN 13 
9780888644695
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
117
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