- Paperback: 150 pages
- Publisher: Biblioasis; 1 edition (April 1 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 189723144X
- ISBN-13: 978-1897231449
- Product Dimensions: 18.8 x 13.4 x 1.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 200 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #350,013 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In 1910 Lawrence J. Burpee published an anthology of 100 Canadian Sonnets. Poet and critic Zachariah Wells figured it was high time for an update on that dusty tome. In Jailbreaks, Wells has gathered 99 of his favourite sonnets written by Canadians, from the 19th Century to the present day. Jailbreaks does much to question the standard assumption that the best Canadian poetry is written in free verse, while showcasing the enormous versatility of the sonnet and of the poets who use it as a vessel for their thoughts and feelings. Jailbreaks just might change the way we think about Canadian poetry.
About the Author
Zachariah Wells (www.zachariahwells.com) is the author of one trade collection of poetry Unsettled, as well as several chapbooks, broadsides and multimedia publications. A prolific and sometimes controversial critic, he is the reviews editor for Canadian Notes and Queries magazine and has twice won the Arc magazine Critic's Desk Award. Forthcoming works include a children's picture book, Anything But Hank (co-written with Rachel Lebowitz, illustrated by Eric Orchard); a poetry collection, Track & Trace; a collection of reviews and critical essays, Career Limiting Moves. (All of which are forthcoming with Biblioasis.) Originally from Price Edward Island, he now lives in New Westminster, BC, where he works seasonally as a passenger train attendant.
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Neo-formalism creeps across the border,
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This review is from: Jailbreaks and Re-creations: 99 Canadian Sonnets (Paperback)
I'm looking forward to sonnets by Canadians. Wells has at times a peculiar take on what makes a form, so I expect variance on fourteen lines of abba abba cde cde. But the getting away from the cheap, stale, flatulent sentence-fragmented soap opera free verse of much Canadian poetry is a better thing he does than the Internationalist Conspiracy has so far done.
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