Reviews
'Deftly analyzing both the canonization and desecration strategies that have shaped the Lowther legacies, Wiesenthal wisely moves beyond the victimization myth and characterizations of the poet as a "prescient Cassandra".'Few poets would be fortunate to have so intelligent and painstaking an advocate. Wiesenthal has not only rescued many precious and vanishing fragments of the life story, but also brought into focus the very complex mythological and scientific material Lowther was consuming like a blast furnance and trying to incorporate into her work.', 'Deftly analyzing both the canonization and desecration strategies that have shaped the Lowther legacies, Wiesenthal wisely moves beyond the victimization myth and characterizations of the poet as a "prescient Cassandra".…Few poets would be fortunate t, 'Deftly analyzing both the canonization and desecration strategies that have shaped the Lowther legacies, Wiesenthal wisely moves beyond the victimization myth and characterizations of the poet as a "prescient Cassandra"....Few poets would be fortunate t
Table of Content
Introduction: Toward a Half-Life of Pat Lowther I The Craft of Memory 1 Three September Twenty-Threes 2 Not about Poetry 3 Canonicity and the 'Cult of the Victim' II Complicated Airflows in the House 4 'At, Rat, Cat, Sat, Pat' 5 5823 St George Street 6 A Difficult Flowering 7 That 'Spinning Female Thing' 8 It Happens Every Day III Ready to Learn Politics 9 The First 'Red Flag' 10 The Local Left 11 The Age of the Bird 12 Longitudes, North 13 Longitudes, South 14 Welcome to the League IV Philosophy's First Molecule 15 Infinite Mirror Trips 16 The Land Is What's Left 17 'History, and Context, and Continuity'
Copyright Date
2005
Topic
Canadian, Literary
Dewey Decimal
811/.54
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
