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Current Issue: 50th Anniversary Interventions (#204)
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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Remembrances of Things Past
Susan Musgrave (Author)
Obituary of Light: The Sangan River Meditations. Leaf Press
Robert Kroetsch (Author)
Too Bad: Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait. University of Alberta Press
Alice Major (Author)
Memory's Daughter. University of Alberta Press
Reviewed by Karl Jirgens
Like Marcel Proust, Susan Musgrave, Robert Kroetsch, and Alice Major meditate on mortality and time past. These three collections are long-poem suites of connected lyrics. Susan Musgrave’s Obituary of Light: The Sangan River Meditations draws from Asian and Western traditions in tribute to Paul, a beloved, lost to cancer. Musgrave links short lyrics, koans, and haiku variants through four seasons, embracing diurnal flux and the life cycle. Obituary of Light provides an [...]
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