Revenge of the optimist

Choyce, Lesley, 1951- author.

Book 2004

"Lesley Choyce's poetry is transcendental, joyful and at times ecstatic, though rooted securely in the world. The new poems in Revenge of the Optimist are charged with a kind of soulful music and are distinguished by wide tonal flavours and range. Lesley Choyce has said of his writing that "Poetry arises from events, real or imagined, that stir the intellect and emotions to re-create, through words, the full impact of life's greatest challenges.....

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ISBN:

9781894800433
1894800435

Description:

95 pages ; 23 cm
regular print

Contents:

Writing Down the Wind
All the Water in the World
Universal Application
Arguments About Tradition
Threes
Pond
Novel
Body Trains Itself But Not the Mind
Afterlife: Some Theories and Propositions About Death
Self-Knowledge
Hauling Seaweed for My Garden
Crossing Route One
This Poem is the Room
Report from the Republic of Morning
Davey Oickle: Regrets
Three Ravens Eating Spaghetti
Sophistication of Pencils
Notebook Poem
Flying the Idea to Vancouver
Morning Editorial
Minesville, October 19, 2001
On the Beach with Marcus Aurelius
March 18, 2003
Hiking to Lake No Good
Kafka's New Shoes
Ice at Sunset
History Lesson
Poem for Leander's Garage
Garden in the Rain
Heading Into Tomorrow
What We Discussed in Literature Class Today
Cradling His Disappointment
Take a Deep Breath
Driving North With the Dalai Lama
Creative Writing Class Notes
I. Basics
II. Politics and the English Language
III. Plot
IV. Afternoon Lecture on Impossible Solutions as the Only Valid Ones for Fiction
V. Professor Off on a Tangent
VI. Some Final Thoughts on Politics and Boy Scout Principles
VII. Writer's Block
VIII. Final Advice
Certainty of Poems
Burning the Mail
Language of Broken Things
Making Acquaintance with the Book
April 6

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3227694

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