| The Dominion of Love: An Anthology of Canadian Love Poems Contributor(s): Wayman, Tom (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1550172387 ISBN-13: 9781550172386 Publisher: Harbour Publishing OUR PRICE: $19.76 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) |
| Dewey: 811.008 |
| LCCN: 2001411084 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.2" W x 7.4" (0.40 lbs) 159 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For as long as we have communicated by words, men and women have turned to poets to help them express the surges of emotion that accompany the feelings we call romantic love. Recognizing that love's domain is as huge, as vast as Canada itself, acclaimed poet Tom Wayman set out in 1997 to compile an anthology of the nation's best poetry on the subject - the result is The Dominion of Love. The Dominion of Love is a collection of poems by fifty of Canada's top writers, including Margaret Atwood, Earle Birney, Marilyn Bowering, Leonard Cohen, Lorna Crozier, Joy Kogawa, Patrick Lane, Dorothy Livesay, Susan Musgrave, Michael Ondaatje, Al Purdy, Shannon Stewart, Phyllis Webb, Howard White and Patricia Young. Strikingly perceptive, literary and passionate, these poems explore the landscape of love and romance. They map the complexities of first love, eroticism and marriage all while avoiding the effusive sentimentality that often accompanies this genre. The Dominion of Love is divided into four sections: You Have the Lovers, which explores the breathless wonder we experience when we first fall in love; In Darkness We Find Each Other, which celebrates the curious fact that love often does best at night; Running to Surrender, which praises long-term relationships; and Away with Words, two poems that explore the tangled links between love and the language we use to express it. My hope is that the poems of this anthology will help make anyone's journey across love's provinces and territories more sure-footed, cheerful, exciting, successful, writes Wayman in his introduction. Those who have written about where we journey provide us with the same benefits of any national literature - an expanded sense of place, and a deeper perception of those who inhabit this country. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wayman, Tom: - Tom Wayman was born in Ontario in 1945, but has spent most of his life in British Columbia. He has worked at a number of jobs, both blue and white-collar, across Canada and the U.S., and has helped bring into being a new movement of poetry in these countries--the incorporation of the actual conditions and effects of daily work. His poetry has been awarded the Canadian Authors' Association medal for poetry, the A.J.M. Smith Prize, first prize in the USA Bicentennial Poetry Awards competition, and the Acorn-Plantos Award; in 2003 he was shortlisted for the Governor-General's Literary Award. He has published more than a dozen collections of poems, six poetry anthologies, three collections of essays and three books of prose fiction. He has taught widely at the post-secondary level in Canada and the U.S., most recently (2002-2010) at the University of Calgary. Since 1989 he has been the Squire of "Appledore," his estate in the Selkirk Mountains of southeastern BC. |