Download or read book The Selected Poems of Irving Layton written by Irving Layton and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1977 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Good as Gone written by Anna Pottier and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2015-03-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After dropping out of school, 23-year-old Anna Pottier became Layton's fifth and final wife. She was 48 years his junior. As Irving's partner, she shared his world until Parkinson's and early-stage Alzheimer's changed both of their lives, and Pottier had nothing left to give.
Download or read book The Improved Binoculars written by Irving Layton and published by Highlands [N.C.] : J. Williams. This book was released on 1956 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Waiting for the Messiah written by Irving Layton and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enigmatic and explosive, Irving Layton was indisputably one of this country's most controversial literary figures. His flamboyant style and outspokenness won him friends and enemies. His visceral and lyrical poetry earned him reverence and international acclaim. In Waiting for the Messiah, first published in 1985, Layton writes openly about his life and the discordant impulses that shaped him into the provocative poet and personality that he became. With the vitality, passion, and intimacy that characterizes his verse, his memoir -- covering the years between 1912 and 1946 -- sheds welcome light on Irving Layton's public persona, and gives further substance to one of the most impressive bodies of work in Canadian poetry. His self-portrait teems with insight and energy, and paints a picture of a colourful life, from its beginnings in Montreal's Jewish ghetto. As a high-spirited, life-loving, and sensual boy, he reacted against anti-Semitism and poverty that surrounded him, rejecting his parents' values and orthodox beliefs. He battled his way through an educational system that provided no outlet for his imagination. Layton's "crazy need for experience" drove him to embrace or challenge all that he encountered, and he recounts his first experiences with sex and death, his associations with literary friends and rivals, his relationships with women. Equally compelling is his description of Montreal in the forties as a city crackling with literary and political energies. It was in the ferment of this milieu that Layton ripened as a poet In Waiting for the Messiah, Layton unleashes his sparkling prose style. He is bold and revealing, scathing and witty. The result is a rich and entertaining memoir of a life which as "commuted daily between heaven and hell" and produced poems which have made a lasting contribution to Canadian literature.
Download or read book Irving Layton and Robert Creeley written by Irving Layton and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1990 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events covered by the letters collected here start with Robert Creeley's discovery of Irving Layton and focus on the turbulent circumstances surrounding the publication (by Creeley's Divers Press in Majorca) of In the Midst of My Fever, Layton's first book of poems not published at his own expense and the one that established him as a major poet. Irving Layton and Robert Creeley also recounts the cementing of avant-garde contacts between Canada and the United States through magazines such as Origin, Contact, and CIV/n.
Download or read book Motion Sickness written by David Layton and published by Stoddart. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study Guide for Irving Layton s A Tall Man Executes a Jig written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Irving Layton's "A Tall Man Executes a Jig," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
Download or read book Love where the Nights are Long written by Irving Layton and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 1962 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Irving Layton written by Harriet Bernstein and published by Inanna Memoir Series. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harriet Bernstein tells the story of her life with Canadian poet Irving Layton.
Download or read book The Poems of Irving Layton written by Irving Layton and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 1977 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Wild Peculiar Joy written by Irving Layton and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Wild Peculiar Joy is Irving Layton’s poetic testament. Hailed as the great lyric poet, Irving Layton has come to be known as one of Canada’s most powerful, groundbreaking voices, an important and influential writer whose distinguished career spanned almost forty-five years. By turns passionate and grave, joyous and apocalyptic, his beautifully crafted poems are illuminated by a strong social and political conscience, and an intensely humanistic view of the world. This is poetry that is timeless and universal. Drawn from his entire body of work, and now reissued in this handsomely redesigned volume, this edition includes a new introduction by Sam Solecki, and selected short excerpts from Irving Layton’s writings on the craft of poetry. A Wild Peculiar Joy once again makes available to readers the poetry of Irving Layton and stands as the author’s definitive selected.
Download or read book The Pole vaulter written by Irving Layton and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 1974 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Collected Poems of Irving Layton written by Irving Layton and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 1971 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lovers and Lesser Men written by Irving Layton and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 1973 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Broken Hallelujah Rock and Roll Redemption and the Life of Leonard Cohen written by Liel Leibovitz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look not only at the inner man but also at the environments that shaped Leonard Cohen, from the rock scene of New York in the 1960s to the remote Zen monastery where Cohen spent years later in life.
Download or read book Engagements written by Irving Layton and published by Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. This book was released on 1972 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 250 poems for young people by American and British writers. Reprint of an edition published in the early 1900's.
Download or read book From Room to Room written by Eli Mandel and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The career of Eli Mandel (1922–1992) was one of the most prolific and distinguished in all of Canadian literature, yet in recent years his work has gone unsung compared with that of such peers as Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Robert Kroetsch, Irving Layton, and P.K. Page. Though he was a critic, anthologist, and editor of national prominence, Mandel’s legacy resides most securely in his poetry, which earned many accolades. From Room to Room: The Poetry of Eli Mandel presents thirty-five of Mandel’s best poems written over four decades, from the 1950s to the 1980s. The selection covers the most prominent themes in Mandel’s work, including his Russian-Jewish heritage, his Saskatchewan upbringing, his interest in classical and biblical archetypes, and his concern for the political and social issues of his time. The book also highlights the way in which Mandel’s work bridged the formal attributes of modernist poetry with contemporary, sometimes experimental, poetics. Complete with a scholarly introduction by Peter Webb and a literary afterword by Andrew Stubbs, From Room to Room makes a worthy addition to the Laurier Poetry Series, which presents affordable editions of contemporary Canadian poetry for use in the classroom and the enjoyment of anyone wishing to read some of the finest poetry Canada has to offer.
