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The Order in Which We Do Things: The Poetry of Tom Wayman(Laurier Poetry)

The Order in Which We Do Things: The Poetry of Tom Wayman(Laurier Poetry)

          
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Tom Wayman's poetry has been published around the world to great acclaim. Wayman is one of Canada's most prolific and public poets, and his writing since the 1960s has been by turns angry, engaged, hopeful, tender, and hilarious. His voice and persona are his alone but simultaneously ours too. His recurring themes - work, mortality, love, lust, friendship, the natural world - make his work a poetry of human inevitabilities, a poetry that exults in the inevitability of seeing poetry in the everyday.

Wayman's craft is poïesis (from the Ancient Greek ""to make"") - making a change, making a difference, making a ruckus, making the most of our time. His working life has always been inextricable from his writing one; his poems offer an honest and candid consideration of the ideological underpinnings, practical realities, and subtle beauties of a life lived on job sites and picket lines, in union halls, classrooms, and book-stuffed offices, and on the page itself.

The Order in Which We Do Things
is a collection of more than thirty of Wayman's best poems, selected and introduced by Owen Percy. Percy's introduction explores the genesis of Wayman's print persona and contextualizes his politically engaged, conversational voice within the pantheon of its various publics. In his afterword, ""Work and Silence,"" Wayman reflects on his more than forty years in print as a work poet, and underlines poetry's sustained power to engage readers, invite solidarity, and stoke the fires of critical resistance to the order in which we do things.

Table of Contents:

  • The Order in Which We Do Things: The Poetry of Tom Wayman, selected with an introduction by Owen Percy
  • Foreword, Neil Besner
  • Biographical Note
  • Introduction: Wayman in Print: ""He Do the Polis in Different Voices,"" Owen Percy
  • Days: Construction
  • Picketing Supermarkets
  • Wayman in Love
  • The Country of Everyday: Literary Criticism
  • The Factory Hour
  • The Old Power
  • Industrial Music
  • Factory Time
  • Garrison
  • Friday Night in Early September at Morris and Sara Wayman's Farm, Roseneath, Ontario
  • White Hand
  • Silos
  • Paper, Scissors, Stone
  • The Face of Jack Munro
  • A Cursing Poem: This Poem Wants Gordon Shrum to Die
  • The Poet
  • Defective Parts of Speech: Official Errata
  • Did I Miss Anything?
  • The Man Who Logged the West Ridge
  • For William Stafford (1914-1993)
  • War on a Round Planet
  • Cup
  • Epithalamium for a Former Lover
  • Calgary
  • Postmodern 911
  • Mt. Gimli Pashtun
  • Air Support
  • Whistle
  • The White Dogs
  • Minutes
  • Breath
  • Afterword: Work and Silence, Tom Wayman
  • Acknowledgements


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    Product Details
    • ISBN-13: 9781554589951
    • Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
    • Publisher Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
    • Depth: 13
    • Language: English
    • Returnable: Y
    • Spine Width: 6 mm
    • Weight: 200 gr
    • ISBN-10: 1554589959
    • Publisher Date: 28 Feb 2014
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Height: 229 mm
    • No of Pages: 112
    • Series Title: Laurier Poetry
    • Sub Title: The Poetry of Tom Wayman
    • Width: 152 mm


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