<p>The Stunted Strong is a new edition of the first book published by Fiddlehead Poetry Books, the company that became Goose Lane Editions. Fred Cogswell, its author, was also the company's founder. The Stunted Strong is a sixteen-sonnet chapbook. The first and last poems create a context for the fourteen inner sonnets, each of which is a vivid sketch of an inhabitant of a rural community in the St. John River valley. The sequence portrays country people confined by frustration, obsession, and small victories, and it expresses in their characters the illimitable dreams and thwarting limitations of the human condition. The publication of the second edition of The Stunted Strong marks Goose Lane's 50th anniversary and commemorates Fred Cogswell's lifelong devotion to poetry. The text is introduced by Robert Gibbs, Cogswell's friend, colleague, and fellow poet. Designed and printed by Gaspereau Press, the new edition of The Stunted Strong is a work of art in its own right.</p>

The Stunted Strong (Goose Lane Editions Poetry Books)

Literature & Fiction

Cogswell, Fred

Poetry

Goose Lane Editions

St. Thomas University has nurtured exemplary people for a century — from its first alighting in Newcastle to its current perch on a Fredericton hilltop. Here, in celebration of St. Thomas's 100th anniversary, is the first-ever collection of fiction, poetry, and prose by the university's most celebrated writers, including David Adams Richards, Sheldon Currie, Leo Ferrari, Sheree Fitch, and Kathy Mac. Philip Lee's thrumming account of a public auction kicks off the collection. Next up: Sheree Fitch's poem, "Cop," which wends through undercover prostitution and a child's abduction. Hard on its heels: Sheldon Currie's pitch-perfect story from a Nova Scotia coal-mining town. Once you begin, you're sure to read until the entire, delectable volume is consumed.

The STU Reader

Curtis, Wayne

Lee, Philip

Chiasson, Herménégilde

Why "Later in Chicago"? The title is a reference to Henry Adams, (1838-1918). His great-grandfather was President of the United States, as was also his grandfather. His father was a leading American diplomat. Henry Adams became an historian who by learning, thought, and hard work developed two great insights. His Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (privately printed in 1904) was a scholarly study of the architecture and literature of the Medieval church. In it, Adams concluded that the living force of Western culture was centred in the female principle exhibited by the Virgin Mary. He did not think. however, that Mary's influence on Western Europe would be permanent. Lack of material benefit tended to discourage the builders. In 1893 while attending the World's Fair in Chicago, Adams received his second insight. He watched the dynamo of American inventor, George Westinghouse, and found in it, a new source of power more suited to the needs of America! n materialism. As a result he wrote The Education of Henry Adams, privately printed in 1906 but issued to the public in 1918. No book of its decade ever awakened more discussion in America, and to the power of the goddess in a section of his The Education of Henry Adams called "The Virgin and the Dynamo" America and its inhabitants were offered an alternate god — this time not human but a standardized machine which captured the allegiance of men who became, in the words of William Blake, what they beheld.

Later in Chicago

Biographies & Memoirs

Reference & Collections

Borealis Press

Selected Poems (Essential Poets Series 13)

Guernica Editions

These studies of Canadian authors fulfill a real need in the study of Canadian literature. Each monograph is a separately bound study that contains a biography of the author, a description of the tradition and milieu that influenced the author, a survey of the criticism on the author, a comprehensive essay on all the author's key works, and a detailed bibliography of primary and secondary works.

Charles Mair and His Works (Canadian Author Studies series)

ECW Press

Explores the life and works of Charles G.D. Roberts.

Charles G.D. Roberts and His Works (Hildafolk)

Doors of the Morning: The Winning Poems of the 1996 Sandburg-Livesay Anthology Contest

Sandburg-Livesay Anthology Contest

Unmon Northland

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