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MacEwen Gwendolyn

The Selected Gwendolyn MacEwen (Exile Classics series)

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Alien Creature: A Visitation from Gwendolyn MacEwan

Playwrights Canada Press

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"Without ever romanticizing or sensationalizing, Griffiths paints a compelling portrait of a self-invented personality whose emphatic exoticism is both charming and maddening. Her fantasy life is a kind of denial—her father was a drunk, her mother was mad—but her creative escape has given birth to 20 books of poems."—Kate Taylor, The Globe and Mail

Invocations: The Poetry and Prose of Gwendolyn McEwen

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Invocations offers a new critical reading of Gwendolyn MacEwen’s poetry and prose. It begins with a review of critical assessments of her work which reveals that, while fascinated with MacEwen’s mythic sensibility, critics are concerned with the elusive, complex nature of her language and vision as rooted in sources often obscure to the reader. In this book, poet-critic Jan Bartley places MacEwen within the tradition of Canadian literature and examines her major sources -- notably the study of alchemy and Jungian philosophy -- to reveal the inner logic of her poetic explorations.
Trojan Women (Exile Classics series)

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With a stunning command of the Greek language and a mastery of poetic nuance, this translation of Euripides' play breathes unparalleled life into an ancient masterpiece. Using vocabulary that gives the sense that the play was written with an appreciation of and application to the 20th and 21st centuries, this adaptation goes beyond the timeless plot of the consequences of war and the fate of both the victors and the losers and focuses on the modern-day issues of feminism and women's rights. Also included in this volume are two long poems—"Helen" and "Orestes"—by contemporary Greek poet Yannis Ritsos, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize.

Julian the Magician (Insomniac Library)

Insomniac Press

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The Insomniac Library is proud to reissue Gwendolyn MacEwen's first novel, more than forty years after its original appearance in 1963. MacEwen described what she set out to achieve as a "sort of powerful poetic mad half-abandoned prose somewhere between [Kenneth] Patchen and Virginia Woolf." Set in a medieval past that has distinctly modern overtones, the novel is about Julian, a young man who believes he is Christ. Wandering the countryside in a horse-drawn wagon, Julian learns "to suspend logic like a whale on a thread." He becomes a master of alchemy, performing 'miracles' like curing the mad and changing water into wine. When his rapt audiences begins to lose faith, Julian must pay with his life. MacEwen skilfully implies a relationship between alchemy, miracles and belief, and the art forms she is engaged in herself, poetry and prose. What is the price the writer-magician must pay to engender belief in her audience? Is something true merely because we believe in it? The book includes an Afterword by the author's sister.
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