'A Strange Gestation': Periods of Poetic Silence in Modern Canadian Creative Careers
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'A Strange Gestation': Periods of Poetic Silence in Modern Canadian Creative Careers
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Abstract |
The author unites a diverse group of Canadian poets who all fell silent for a prolonged period in the middle of otherwise productive and successful poetic careers: Montreal poets P.K. Page (1916-2010) and Leonard Cohen (1934-2016), as well as West Coast poets Phyllis Webb, John Newlove, and Anne Marriott. The author points out that their "silences" are characterized not by an absence of creative energy or effort, but by the poets' reluctance to publish and their struggles to bring new work to satisfactory completion.
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PhD dissertation
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McGill University
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Montreal
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2015
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ix-321p.
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en
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Henderson-Cameron, Laura. “‘A Strange Gestation’: Periods of Poetic Silence in Modern Canadian Creative Careers.” PhD dissertation, McGill University, 2015. https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/3t945t690.
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