Collected poetry

Dudek, Louis

Delta Canada

When Dudek selected and arranged the poems in the book he intended this to be the "definitive" collection of his poems. Tis contains selections from 20 of his previous book between 1944 and 1997. Louis Dudek ... prolific poet, critic and literary activist ... has had a long and distinguished career as one of Canada's major writers.

The Poetry of Louis Dudek: Definitive Collection

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Dundurn

In Defense of Art

Arts & Photography

Quarry Pr

In The Birth of Reason Louis Dudek establishes the link between ancient pre-Socratic Atomism and modern quantum mechanics. In characteristically unencumbered terms, Dudek shows how this revolutionary philosophy, the invention of thinkers from Ioanian Greek trading cities, has been consistently misrepresented and resisted. Atomism nevertheless marks the transition from primitive mythological thinking (mythos) to the abstract, concept-based rationality (logos) that informs our modern approach to an ultimately unknowable reality. 'This essay is a kind of summation of myself gnothi seautón.... I am neither a materialist nor a theist, really, nor am I altogether an agnostic. As I say in [the] essay, 'the ultimate reality is unknowable,' but I am sure that if it were knowable it would satisfy both the materialist and the theist, and much more that we cannot imagine.'

The Birth of Reason

History & Criticism

Dc Books

In The Birth of Reason Louis Dudek establishes the link between ancient pre-Socratic Atomism and modern quantum mechanics. In characteristically unencumbered terms, Dudek shows how this revolutionary philosophy, the invention of thinkers from Ioanian Greek trading cities, has been consistently misrepresented and resisted. Atomism nevertheless marks the transition from primitive mythological thinking (mythos) to the abstract, concept-based rationality (logos) that informs our modern approach to an ultimately unknowable reality.This essay iis a kind of summation of myself o gnothi seautun.... I am neither a materialist nor a theist, really, nor am I altogether an agnostic. As I say in [the] essay, ethe ultimate reality is unknowable, i but I am sure that if it were knowable it would satisfy both the materialist and the theist, and much more that we cannot imagine.i Identified by Wynne Francis as Canadais first iman of letters, i Dudek once again ventures into new intellectual territory o and reveals the underpinnings of his own remarkable cultural, social, and economic thought.Critical CommentiIf anyone could make the Ionian skeptics palatable to a generation raised on music and television, itis Louis Dudek.io The Ottawa Citizeni...the highlight is ... 39 fragments from the pre-Socratics that Dudek astutely describes as reading elike a philosophical poem.iio The Montreal Gazettei...includes the thesis that the scientific conception of the universe ... is the most advanced stage of religious evolution.io Canadian Book Review Annual

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Zembla's Rocks is Louis Dudek's first major collection of lyric poems since The Transparent Sea (1956). All of Dudek's voices are here: the lyrical observer of everyday events, the satirizer of culture and society, the meditative poet. This book confirms Dudek's impressive contribution to Canadian literature. Generally acknowledged as the pioneer of the Canadian long poem, Dudek has also been active as critic, teacher, modernist theoretician, editor and publisher for over four decades. In 1981 Frank Davel and bp Nicol said that "Dudek's centrality to Canadian poetry will become indisputably apparent. His work binds Smith, Scott, and Klein to the writing of the present generation. It links Canadian writing to the great modernist descent from Joyce, Pound, Eliot, and Williams."

Zembla's Rocks

Véhicule Press

Infinite Worlds

Analytical, controversial, lyrical, intelligent, and never boring, these essays cover topics as diverse as Nabokov's Pale Fire, the literary quarrel between Morley Callaghan and John Glassco, the idea of art, the poetry and prose of R.J. MacSween, the poetry of Ken Norris, and myth.

Paradise

A passionate believer in the power of art―and especially poetry―to influence and critique contemporary culture, Louis Dudek devoted much of his life to shaping the Canadian literary scene through his meditative and experimental poems as well as his work in publishing and teaching. All These Roads: The Poetry of Louis Dudek brings together thirty-five of Dudek’s poems written over the course of his sixty-year career. Much of Dudek’s poetry is about the practice of art, with comment on the way the craft of poetry is mediated by such factors as university classes, public readings, reviews, commercial presses, and academic conferences. The poems in this selection―witty satires, short lyrics, and long sequences―reflect self-consciously on the relationship between art and life and will draw readers into the dramatic mid-century literary and cultural debates in which Dudek was an important participant. Karis Shearer’s introduction provides an overview of Dudek’s prolific career as poet, professor, editor, publisher, and critic, and considers the ways in which Dudek’s functional poems help, both formally and thematically, to carry out the tasks associated with those roles. Comparing Dudek’s reception to that of NourbeSe Philip, Marilyn Dumont, and Roy Miki, Frank Davey’s afterword locates Dudek in a pre-1980s version of multiculturalism that is more complex than many critics would have it. According to Davey, Dudek broadened the limits on the possible range and type of poetry for subsequent generations of Canadian writers.

All These Roads: The Poetry of Louis Dudek (Laurier Poetry)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

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