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Order in Which We Do Things
Owen Percy
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Description for Order in Which We Do Things
Paperback. Editor(s): Percy, Owen. Num Pages: 80 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 159 x 8. Weight in Grams: 180.
Tom Wayman's poetry has been published around the world to great acclaim. Wayman is one of Canada's most prolific and public poets, and his writing since the 1960s has been by turns angry, engaged, hopeful, tender, and hilarious. His voice and persona are his alone but simultaneously ours too. His recurring themes - work, mortality, love, lust, friendship, the natural world - make his work a poetry of human inevitabilities, a poetry that exults in the inevitability of seeing poetry in the everyday.
Wayman's craft is poïesis (from the Ancient Greek ""to make"") - making a change, ... Read more
Tom Wayman's poetry has been published around the world to great acclaim. Wayman is one of Canada's most prolific and public poets, and his writing since the 1960s has been by turns angry, engaged, hopeful, tender, and hilarious. His voice and persona are his alone but simultaneously ours too. His recurring themes - work, mortality, love, lust, friendship, the natural world - make his work a poetry of human inevitabilities, a poetry that exults in the inevitability of seeing poetry in the everyday.
Wayman's craft is poïesis (from the Ancient Greek ""to make"") - making a change, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
ISBN
9781554589951
SKU
V9781554589951
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Ref
99-15
About Owen Percy
Tom Wayman has published nineteen poetry collections, edited six anthologies of poets writing about their employment, and published three collections of essays on labour arts. He has taught at the post-secondary level in the United States and Canada and co-founded the Vancouver Industrial Writers Union and the Vancouver Centre of the Kootenay School of Writing. Wayman has been the recipient ... Read more
Reviews for Order in Which We Do Things
``Wayman...believes that poetry exists beyone 'the money economy' and because of this freedom it creates the highest potential to drive social change. His concerns are humanist and folksy, infused with the moral responsibility of integrity. This series, because of its...scope and space...allows the reader to see how Wayman's immersions in these moral concerns have developed and morphed from those of ... Read more