wilfrid laurier university press apr 2006 (5 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Much-loved, cantankerous, and brilliant, Al Purdy galloped across the Canadian literary landscape for decades, grandly embodying the self-taught and hard-living image of the 1960s and '70s poet. The More Easily Kept Illusions: The Poetry of Al Purdy is a selection of thirty-five poems that includes some of his best-loved and unearths lost and ignored treasures.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This volume features thirty-five of Don McKay's best poems, which are selected with a contextualizing introduction by Méira Cook that probes wilderness and representation in McKay, and the canny, quirky, thoughtful, and sometimes comic self-consciousness the poems adumbrate. Included is McKay's afterword written especially for this volume in which McKay reflects on his own writing process-its relationship to the earth and to metamorphosis.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Speaking of Power: The Poetry of Di Brandt introduces the reader to the lyric power and political urgency of the poetry of Di Brandt, providing an overview of her poetry written during a prolific and revolutionary twenty-year period.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Social Policy and Practice in Canada: A History traces the history of social policy in Canada from the period of First Nations' control to the present day, exploring the various ways in which residents of the area known today as Canada have organized themselves to deal with (or to ignore) the needs of the ill, the poor, the elderly, and the young.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Violence in families and intimate relationships affects a significant proportion of the population - from very young children to the elderly. This book offers a national survey of the research and practice, and reflects on the patriarchal roots and societal conditions in Canada that have led to the long-standing abuse of women and children.