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Continuations 2
Barbour, Douglas; Murphy, Sheila E.
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Description for Continuations 2
Paperback. Two seasoned poets pulse jazz-like variations back and forth via email, from Alberta to Arizona. Series: Robert Kroetsch Series. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 214.
"Most long poems contain lyric occasions. Here is an amazingly sustained lyric that contains traces of other commodities." -Robert Kroetsch Sheila Murphy and Douglas Barbour extend their singular poetic vision of that elusive third I/eye in Continuations 2. The new lyric voice sustained (within) these labyrinthine verses does so by virtue of its authors' pitch-perfect collaborative process. For ten years they have kept their song alive via email, pulsing jazz-like variations and haunting repetitions back and forth from Arizona to Alberta, all the while adhering to that taut stanza of six lines. Readers who admire Barbour and Murphy's past innovations, ... Read more
"Most long poems contain lyric occasions. Here is an amazingly sustained lyric that contains traces of other commodities." -Robert Kroetsch Sheila Murphy and Douglas Barbour extend their singular poetic vision of that elusive third I/eye in Continuations 2. The new lyric voice sustained (within) these labyrinthine verses does so by virtue of its authors' pitch-perfect collaborative process. For ten years they have kept their song alive via email, pulsing jazz-like variations and haunting repetitions back and forth from Arizona to Alberta, all the while adhering to that taut stanza of six lines. Readers who admire Barbour and Murphy's past innovations, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Series
Robert Kroetsch Series
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
, Canada
ISBN
9780888645968
SKU
V9780888645968
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About Barbour, Douglas; Murphy, Sheila E.
Douglas Barbour lives in Edmonton. The author of several books of poetry and criticism, he was inducted into the City of Edmonton Arts & Culture Hall of Fame in 2003. Sheila E. Murphy's poetry over the past 30 years has emphasized the prose poem. Her visual work from the recent decade also appears in several collections. She lives in Phoenix, ... Read more
Reviews for Continuations 2
"Douglas Barbour and Sheila E. Murphy extend their ... refined and joyful collaboration, which begun in November 2000 via email, in Continuations 2. Very evident in this flowing is the sense of delight that each writer must have had in the interchange, which results in a third, distinctive, voice.... Word play is extended over stanzas in a relentless rhythm that captivates ... Read more