This collection presents the best of Cooley's work: the meditations and memories, the games and the lyrics, the elegies and the dramatic monologues, and the poems of carefully wrought observation. The language is always alive. He's always paying attention, tipping the balance, and maintaining a constant state of wonder.

Sunfall

Literature & Fiction

Cooley, Dennis

Poetry

House of Anansi Pr

In this only home, Cooley's satellite eye, located in the faraway reaches of outer space, rediscovers our world from a new -perspective with the kind of awe and wonder traditionally reserved for the world's first explorers. Faces once unfamiliar become those of family and friends as this only home distills all people, all places and all time into one small space: the earth, our planet.

This Only Home

Turnstone Pr

<p>You are about to read a book like no other. Bloody Jack is a collection about the making and unmaking of story, of poetry and of history. Based loosely on the life of John Krafchenko, a notorious Manitoban outlaw, the poems of Bloody Jack turn fact and fiction upside down and inside out. Dennis Cooley has added more than a dozen new poems to this revised edition and Douglas Barbour has written an introduction. By turns earthy and earnest, soulful and sly, Bloody Jack is a rollicking, fun-filled riot of a volume by one of Canada's favourite poets. "Bloody Jack is back again, bigger, bolder, sweeter and even more outrageous." -David Arnason</p>

Bloody Jack (cuRRents)

University of Alberta Press

<p>pp. 138, color illustrations throughout, signed and dated June 2, 2007, by the artist on the front free endpaper,</p>

Figure Ground: Paintings And Drawings of Ivan Eyre

Arts & Photography

Reid, Mary Carpenter

Karlinsky, Amy

Individual Artists

Winnipeg Art Gallery

Fielding

Thistledowon Press

Dedications

Thistledown Pr Ltd

RePlacing is the first collection of essays, reviews, interview and statements devoted entirely to Canada’s Prairie Poetry, edited by Dennis Cooley. RePlacing includes writing by or on Robert Kroetsch, Lorna Uher, Pat Lane, Elizabeth Brewster, John Newlove, Andy Suknaski, and many more poets.

RePlacing

History & Criticism

ECW Press

Dennis Cooley, one of Canada’s most prominent poets, says writing becomes political when you play with certain kinds of voices. His poetry has been influenced and inspired by the prairies and other Canadian poets, but he insists on disturbing the formal poetic inheritance he esteems. His engagement with a variety of speaking voices asks that readers question authority and challenge institutional privilege. In By Word of Mouth, a collection from across his career, readers will discover how Cooley returns to the prairie vernacular and speaks to Canadian identity. Poetry, says Cooley, is about our time and our place.   Nicole Markotić’s introductory essay discusses how Dennis Cooley plays with poetic reference, inspires with syntactical surprises, parodies contemporary writing, and indulges in wild, celebratory puns. This book roams around Dennis Cooley’s poetical world and invites the reader to play along.

By Word of Mouth: The Poetry of Dennis Cooley (Laurier Poetry)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

body works (Brave & Brilliant)

University of Calgary Press

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