By Word of Mouth
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By Word of Mouth

The Poetry of Dennis Cooley

  1. 84 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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By Word of Mouth

The Poetry of Dennis Cooley

About this book

Dennis Cooley, one of Canada's most prominent poets, says writing becomes political when you play with certain kinds of voices. His poetry has been influenced and inspired by the prairies and other Canadian poets, but he insists on disturbing the formal poetic inheritance he esteems. His engagement with a variety of speaking voices asks that readers question authority and challenge institutional privilege. In By Word of Mouth, a collection from across his career, readers will discover how Cooley returns to the prairie vernacular and speaks to Canadian identity. Poetry, says Cooley, is about our time and our place.

Nicole Markoti?'s introductory essay discusses how Dennis Cooley plays with poetic reference, inspires with syntactical surprises, parodies contemporary writing, and indulges in wild, celebratory puns. This book roams around Dennis Cooley's poetical world and invites the reader to play along.

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Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Biographical Note
  4. Introduction: By Word of Mouth: An Introduction to Dennis Cooley’s Poetry
  5. A Poem for You, Leaving Winnipeg
  6. anaeurysm
  7. ā€œ& we are skinbags of heated water dreamingā€
  8. in his tangerine skin
  9. the love song of j l krafchenko or the trans canada in (trance crypt
  10. Sonya Orlowsky
  11. Paul sd
  12. Exorcism
  13. I think ā€œegoā€; ergo I am
  14. labiarinth
  15. anatomy of love
  16. prairie romance
  17. behind the door
  18. moon musings
  19. holy cow
  20. inner ear
  21. my eye
  22. melodious rhyme
  23. he replies to his critics
  24. breathless
  25. "In Germany cooley is a migrant labourerā€
  26. "Wished we had the camera for Davidā€
  27. winnipeg in winter
  28. a series of shocking pre-positions
  29. "mother tongueā€
  30. "this on remembrance weekendā€
  31. "bodies areā€
  32. jack’s dictionary of cunning linguists
  33. blood brothers
  34. red men ace
  35. echolalia
  36. the red/emption of blood
  37. ā€œ& not that he’s wrongā€
  38. ā€œ& a crate of apples could i supposeā€
  39. ā€œ& listening to night sticky with sweatā€
  40. after words
  41. Selected Cooley Poems: Sources