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Panicle

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  • Publisher:
    ECW Press, 2017
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
  • Publisher:
    ECW Press, 2017
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Sze, Gillian
    Date:
    Created
    2017
    Summary:

    In Panicle, Gillian Sze makes her readers look and, more importantly, look again. It's a collection that challenges our notion of seeing as a passive or automatic activity by asking us to question the process of looking. The book's first section, 'Underway,' deals with the moving image and includes both poetic responses to film theory and lyrical long poems while also reimagining fairy tales. The next section, 'Stagings,' takes its inspiration from the still image and explores a wide range of periods, movements, and media. Sze's focus on the process of looking anticipates 'Guillemets,' a creative translation of Roland Giguère's 1966 chapbook, Pouvoir du Noir, which contains a series of poems accompanied by his own paintings. Sze's approach to Giguère is two-fold: she 'translates' his text, and artist Jessica Hiemstra provides a visual response to her translation. The final section, 'Panicle,' continues the meditative quality of 'Guillemets' in a suite of poems that ruminate on nature, desire, and history.

    Subject(s): Poetry
    Original Publisher: ECW Press
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781773051048