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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Essays and critical writing drawn from a wide-ranging fifty-year career in lettersDrawn from a body of essays and reviews written over the course of nearly ?fty years, Work to Be Done showcases both the depth and breadth of Bruce Whiteman?s critical work. Widely published across Canada and the United States, Whiteman is an accomplished poet, translator, and scholar, and his broad interests have never been limited to any one subject area. He moves between classical and contemporary literature, and music, book and literary history, shifting seamlessly from the close reading of a poem to the consideration of the life and oeuvre of an artist.In these thirty-four selected essays, Whiteman demonstrates the cohesion of his varied body of work, which ranges from essays on such poets as Sappho, Goethe, Samuel Beckett, P.K. Page, Leonard Cohen and Philip Larkin, to insightful readings of the biographers and translators of such great writers as Ezra Pound and Marcel Proust. Work to Be Done is an erudite and eclectic tour of Whiteman?s ?nest critical investigations.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021The thirteenth installment of Canada's annual volume of essays showcases diverse nonfiction writing from across the country. "The exceptional essay," writes editor Bruce Whiteman, "derives from a passionate feeling, love and anger being perhaps its upper and lower limits, coexisting with a desire for truth, and it aims for the radiance of what is." In the 2021 edition of Best Canadian Essays, Whiteman's selections seek truth in all the places it may be found, from walks in brambled woods and ancient cities to memories of childhoods that shape a life; to analyses of artifacts both legislative and cultural that advance equality long overdue; to reports from the field that articulate the poetry of the present, the invisibility of the poor, the social contours and consuming mental contagions of the ongoing pandemic. Drawn from leading magazines and journals published in 2020, the fifteen essays gathered here brilliantly illuminate what is.Featuring work by:Neil BesnerCatherine BushYvonne BlomerJenna ButlerElizabeth DauphineeEva-Lynn JagoeMark KingwellFrances KoziarHilary Morgan V. LeathemStephanie NolenKevin PattersonSoraya RobertsIan WaddellSheila Watt-CloutierJoyce WayneRob Winger.…

Paperback. Condition: New. A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021The thirteenth installment of Canada's annual volume of essays showcases diverse nonfiction writing from across the country. "The exceptional essay," writes editor Bruce Whiteman, "derives from a passionate feeling, love and anger being perhaps its upper and lower limits, coexisting with a desire for truth, and it aims for the radiance of what is." In the 2021 edition of Best Canadian Essays, Whiteman's selections seek truth in all the places it may be found, from walks in brambled woods and ancient cities to memories of childhoods that shape a life; to analyses of artifacts both legislative and cultural that advance equality long overdue; to reports from the field that articulate the poetry of the present, the invisibility of the poor, the social contours and consuming mental contagions of the ongoing pandemic. Drawn from leading magazines and journals published in 2020, the fifteen essays gathered here brilliantly illuminate what is.Featuring work by:Neil BesnerCatherine BushYvonne BlomerJenna ButlerElizabeth DauphineeEva-Lynn JagoeMark KingwellFrances KoziarHilary Morgan V. LeathemStephanie NolenKevin PattersonSoraya RobertsIan WaddellSheila Watt-CloutierJoyce WayneRob Winger.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. Essays and critical writing drawn from a wide-ranging fifty-year career in lettersDrawn from a body of essays and reviews written over the course of nearly ?fty years, Work to Be Done showcases both the depth and breadth of Bruce Whiteman's critical work. Widely published across Canada and the United States, Whiteman is an accomplished poet, translator, and scholar, and his broad interests have never been limited to any one subject area. He moves between classical and contemporary literature, and music, book and literary history, shifting seamlessly from the close reading of a poem to the consideration of the life and oeuvre of an artist.In these thirty-four selected essays, Whiteman demonstrates the cohesion of his varied body of work, which ranges from essays on such poets as Sappho, Goethe, Samuel Beckett, P.K. Page, Leonard Cohen and Philip Larkin, to insightful readings of the biographers and translators of such great writers as Ezra Pound and Marcel Proust. Work to Be Done is an erudite and eclectic tour of Whiteman's ?nest critical investigations.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021The thirteenth installment of Canada's annual volume of essays showcases diverse nonfiction writing from across the country. "The exceptional essay," writes editor Bruce Whiteman, "derives from a passionate feeling, love and anger being perhaps its upper and lower limits, coexisting with a desire for truth, and it aims for the radiance of what is." In the 2021 edition of Best Canadian Essays, Whiteman's selections seek truth in all the places it may be found, from walks in brambled woods and ancient cities to memories of childhoods that shape a life; to analyses of artifacts both legislative and cultural that advance equality long overdue; to reports from the field that articulate the poetry of the present, the invisibility of the poor, the social contours and consuming mental contagions of the ongoing pandemic. Drawn from leading magazines and journals published in 2020, the fifteen essays gathered here brilliantly illuminate what is.Featuring work by:Neil BesnerCatherine BushYvonne BlomerJenna ButlerElizabeth DauphineeEva-Lynn JagoeMark KingwellFrances KoziarHilary Morgan V. LeathemStephanie NolenKevin PattersonSoraya RobertsIan WaddellSheila Watt-CloutierJoyce WayneRob Winger Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…