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Canadian Literature's Spring 2010 issue (CL#204), "50th Anniversary Interventions", looks back on Canadian Literature's 50th Anniversary Gala, and celebrates Canadian culture with papers about Duncan Campbell Scott, book policies, copyright, civil war poetry, and new Québecois literature.

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#145 (Summer 1995)
DeMille & Fantasy

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Editorial

W. H. New

Articles

Linda Lamont-Stewart

Gwendolyn Guth

Flavio Multineddu

Stephen Milnes

Katherine Acheson

John Moss and Patricia Holland

  • From the Heart of the Heartland: The Fiction of Sinclair Ross (p. 125 - 127)

Poems

M. Travis Lane

  • A Reader's Deductions (p. 19)

M. Travis Lane

  • What Can Be Named in Numbers Reassures (p. 20) Show/hide Poem

    • We mostly agree on the forms of math:
      2 by 4s to build with, 3 by 5
      paper cards, or 7 by 9
      tin pans.
      What can be named in numbers reassures.

      A bug sails past the window, catching light
      which, I suppose, flicks on it through the pear tree
      whose thick crest
      divides and rations summer.
      As if in mind
      to choose between the skeins of air, the bug
      leaps, zigzags, in a swagger like
      the flourish under a signature:
      unmeasurable lust.

      And poetry,
      which measures nothing, spells itself.

      But are we needed after all?
      Without a noun or numeral the lake
      drowns the red sky, is beautiful.

      That, also, reassures.

Eric Miller

  • Deduction of the Aesthetic Judgement (p. 37 - 38)

Don Kerr

  • Edward Hopper (p. 60 - 61)

John Marshall

  • The Traveller (p. 82 - 83)

John Pass

  • Reprieve for the Body (p. 84 - 85)

David Zieroth

  • First Rain, Then Snow (p. 105) Show/hide Poem

    • The spirit moves in the moment,
      not in the hour.
      In the sudden flick of flesh,
      turn of phrase, a raised hand
      you are separated
      from your previous life—and still you say
      "Everything is fine."
      Except always one thing is not fine:
      you forget to love your spouse one day and
      it stretches into three, or at work
      someone in your department tightens his grip
      until you turn your face
      to a new direction;

      and by consigning yourself away from the world,
      by saying no to those who cross your office door
      with the intention of demeaning you,
      abusing you in seminar
      because you have not held the proper theory
      or sought after their truth,
      you cut their power, you stop the fight.
      You have been given this moment
      not to speak aloud
      but to say to yourself
      what you want from life.

      Now, lying on the bed, you see
      out the window the tops of three trees
      and with these you measure
      first rain, then snow, then rain again,
      then light, then dark, then leaves,
      then wind. None of these
      encroach on you or appear to make you
      less than you are; neither do they
      help much when you turn to your pillow
      or rise, understanding that
      the children's voices downstairs will eventually
      call up to you.

Kevin Irie

  • Sparrows on Ossington Avenue (p. 106)

Tom Eadie

  • Anthropos Metros (p. 120)

Cheryl Foggo

  • Touch (p. 121)

Books in Review

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Columbus & After (p. 122 - 125)

by Elizabeth Currie

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. To America and Around the World: The Logs of Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan by (Branden Publishing)
  2. A World Too Vast: The Four Voyages of Columbus by Alexander McKee (Souvenir Press)
  3. The Columbus Conspiracy: An Investigation into the Secret History of Christopher Columbus by Michael Bradley (Hounslow Press)
  4. The Burial Ground by Pauline Holdstock (New Star Books)
  5. Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence by Marlne Nourbese Philip (Mercury Press)

Critical Agendas (p. 125 - 127)

by Patrick Holland

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Narrative Strategies in Canadian Literature: Feminism and Postcolonialism by Lynette Hunter and Coral A. Howells (Open University)
  2. From the Heart of the Heartland: The Fiction of Sinclair Ross by John Moss and Patricia Holland (University of Ottawa Press)

Writing, America (p. 125 - 127)

by Patrick Holland

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Narrative Strategies in Canadian Literature: Feminism and Postcolonialism by Lynette Hunter and Coral A. Howells (Open University)

Touching Bottom (p. 127 - 128)

by Patrick Holland

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Making Fun of Travellers by Deborah Eibel (Third Eye Publications)
  2. Under the Jasmine Moon by Geri Rosenzweig (HMS Press)
  3. My Grass Cradle by Joanne Arnott (Press Gang Publishers)

Real Ladies (p. 129 - 131)

by Lee Thompson

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Pale as Real Ladies: Poems for Pauline Johnson by John Crate (Brick Books)

Isolation as Existence (p. 131 - 132)

by T. Gillese

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. The Guest House and Other Stories by Kristjana Gunnars (House of Anansi Press)
  2. Out On Main Street by Shani Mootoo (Press Gang Publishers)

Myth & Literature (p. 135 - 136)

by Richard Hodgson

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Jean Rivard ou l'art de réussir. Idéologie et utopie dans l'oeuvre d'Antoine Gérin-Lajoie by Robert Major (Presses de l'Université Laval)
  2. Connaissance de Nelligan by Réjean Robidoux (Éditions Fides)

The University at Issue (p. 136 - 139)

by L. M. Findlay

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Academic Capitalism and Literary Value by Harold Fromm (University of Georgia Press)
  2. The Idea of the University: A Reexamination by Jaroslav Pelikan (Yale University Press)

Wisdom Systems (p. 139 - 141)

by Craig McLuckie

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Baysville: Poems by John Donlan (House of Anansi Press)
  2. Raising of Voices by Robert Hilles (Black Moss Press)

The Road to Wholeness (p. 142 - 144)

by Catherine Rainwater

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Food & Spirits by Beth Brant (Press Gang Publishers)
  2. The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel by Gregory Scofield (Press Gang Publishers)

Societies on Stage (p. 144 - 145)

by Paul M. Malone

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Taking Liberties & Into by Dave Carley (Playwrights Canada Press)
  2. Yankee Notions by Anne Chislett (Playwrights Canada Press)
  3. The Motor Trade & The Affections of May by Norm Foster (Playwrights Canada Press)
  4. The Saints and Apostles by Raymond Storey (Playwrights Canada Press)

Blind Spot (p. 146 - 147)

by Lorraine York

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Brutal Choreographies: Oppositional Strategies and Narrative Design in the Novels of Margaret Atwood by J. Brooks Bouson (University of Massachusetts Press)
  2. The Fat Lady Dances: Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle by Margery Fee (ECW Press)

A Woman's Place (p. 147 - 148)

by Maria Noëlle Ng

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Kitchen Talk by Edna Alford and Claire Harris (Red Deer College Press)
  2. Fresh Girls and Other Stories by Evelyn Lau (HarperCollins)

Being Different (p. 148 - 150)

by Maria Noëlle Ng

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Articulate Silences by King-Kok Cheung (Cornell University Press)
  2. Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal by Karen Connelly (Turnstone Press)

Italianità (p. 150 - 152)

by Petra Fachinger

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Christ in Concrete by Pietro di Donato (Penguin Books Canada)
  2. The Lion's Mouth by Caterina Edwards (Guernica Editions)

Where the Boys Are (p. 152 - 154)

by Peter Dickinson

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Between Men and Feminism by David Porter (Routledge)
  2. Male Subjectivity at the Margins by Kaja Silverman (Routledge)

Response & Responsibility (p. 154 - 155)

by Dennis Denisoff

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture by Terry Castle (Columbia University Press)
  2. Confronting AIDS though Literature: The Responsbilities of Representation by Judith Laurence Pastore (University of Illinois Press)

Voices of Disappointment (p. 155 - 157)

by Lesley D. Clement

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Beyond the Snowstorm: Short Stories by Yvette Edmonds (Borealis Press)
  2. The Illumination of Alice Mallory by Maureen Moore (HarperCollins)
  3. Alaska Highway Two-Step by Caroline Woodward (Polestar Book Publishers)

Lines & Angles (p. 157 - 159)

by Lorna Marie Irvine

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. The Little Black Dress by Cary Fagan (Mercury Press)
  2. Missing Fred Astaire by P. Scott Lawrence (Véhicule Press)

Ethical Postmodernism (p. 160 - 161)

by Stephen Milnes

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Postmodernity: Key Ideas by Beth Smart (Routledge)
  2. Postmodernism: A Reader by Patricia Waugh (Routledge)

Opinions and Notes

Fred Wah

  • Warren Tallman, 1921-1994 (p. 162 - 163)

Stephen Milnes and Malcolm Page

  • Michael Cook, 1932-1994 (p. 163 - 164)

George Woodcock and Mitchell Sharp

  • Which Reminds Me (p. 165)

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