10 Ergebnisse.

Norm Sibum's poems are field notes from the end of empire, a satirist's barbs, verse letters from a poet to his enemies and friends.

Smoke and Lilacs is full of play and shadow, whispered intimations of mortality and glances of humour, elegiac lyric playing against steely classicism, an easy modern vernacular eliding with timeless grace. Sibum's meditative narratives move between worlds, modern and ancient, the state of our civic order and the realm of love. Human love and lust exist within the forces of empire - Rome or America. Men and women continue to ask of life 'from ...

This is a collection of the works of the poet Norm Sibum. Sibum founded the "Vancouver Review" in 1989 and his other books include "Cafe Poems" (1988) and "Narratives and Continuations" (1990).

Some of the speakers in this poetry collection are ancient, some modern, and all ask questions dictated by their situations in life and history. The characters are for the most part stoical and pessimistic, but their pessimism is remote from the cynicism and irony of our age.

Keine Beschreibung.

Like Gaddis locked in a Montreal walk-up. Five squalid ex-pats, existentially wounded by Bush-era villainy, find themselves neighbors to Evil.

Quasi-satirical invectives, addresses, and apostrophes from a great critic of American empire.

A suite of poems as letters to personages both real and imagined with political undertones rarely seen in Sibum's oeuvre.

Sibum's ability to combine the classical with pop culture is such that one needs to approach his text with an intellect that is as manoeuvrable as a classic sports car. ... This collection's ideal reader is the person whose life exceeds the recommended daily dose of decadence.

One good swipe with the sword at the feet and the skeleton of the poem falls down laughing. That is Sibum' signature. To get an idea of how it looks on the ground, imagine taking an anthology of Victorian, pre-Raphaelite and Modernist poetry, tearing all the pages out, scattering them around on the floor in a central library in Baghdad, letting the looters walk over them for a few days, and then reassembling them -- or what's left of them. The...