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Floating Bodies

Roorda, Julie
Floating Bodies Bodies float in rapture, and in death, transported by waves of pleasure, or lapped by failure, fallen, having flown too close to the sun. The poems in this collection are at once macabre and ecstatic, probing the body by means of metaphysics and transcendence through pure sensuality. They describe the disintegration of story that occurs in the face of false love or faith, revealing the ironies, the non sequiturs, the sacrifice. Witty...

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For Montreal
Doré, Jean
Fosfeni
Zanzotto, Andrea and Pasquale Verdicchio

Joseph Pivato Joseph Pivato has been a Professor of English and Humanities at Athabasca for many years, and has also been Visiting Professor at other universities. In 1984-5 he was Research Fellow in the Ethnic and Immigration Studies Program at the University of Toronto. In 1987-8 he was the M.A. Elia Chair in Italian-Canadian Studies at York University and taught the first course on Italian-Canadian writing offered anywhere. In 1991 he was The Canadian Visiting Fellow at...

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Fosfeni
Zanzotto, Andrea and Pasquale Verdicchio
Of Snow, of Soul
Talvet, Jüri and H.L. Hix
Floating Bodies
Roorda, Julie
He We Knew, The
Nudelman, Merle