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Listening for the Heartbeat of Being
Wood, Brent; Dickinson, Mark
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Description for Listening for the Heartbeat of Being
How a multi-talented artist and scholar turned voices of pre-industrial poet-thinkers into texts relevant for today s world, and tomorrow s." Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 548.
Poet, philosopher, translator, typographer, and cultural historian Robert Bringhurst is a modern-day Renaissance man. He has forged a career from diverse but interwoven vocations, finding ways to make accessible to contemporary readers the wisdom of poets and thinkers from ancient Greece, the Middle East, Asia, and North American First Nations. This collection shows the ways in which his industry-standard textbook The Elements of Typographic Style, his remarkable translations of Haida oral epics, and his experimental and traditional poetry and prose form a single coherent project. Listening for the Heartbeat of Being brings together a range of literary scholars, poets, ... Read more
Poet, philosopher, translator, typographer, and cultural historian Robert Bringhurst is a modern-day Renaissance man. He has forged a career from diverse but interwoven vocations, finding ways to make accessible to contemporary readers the wisdom of poets and thinkers from ancient Greece, the Middle East, Asia, and North American First Nations. This collection shows the ways in which his industry-standard textbook The Elements of Typographic Style, his remarkable translations of Haida oral epics, and his experimental and traditional poetry and prose form a single coherent project. Listening for the Heartbeat of Being brings together a range of literary scholars, poets, ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2015
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
Number of Pages
284
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773546349
SKU
V9780773546349
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About Wood, Brent; Dickinson, Mark
Brent Wood teaches in the Department of English and Drama at the University of Toronto at Mississauga. Mark Dickinson teaches in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences at OCAD University.
Reviews for Listening for the Heartbeat of Being
" ... the invaluable first-ever compilation of essays about Bringhurst ... is the product of passion." TLS "Listening for the Heartbeat of Being show[s] Bringhurst to be an innovative, compelling, and crucially relevant artist, deserving of serious and sustained attention." BC Studies