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    From Room to Room: The Poetry of Eli Mandel
    From Room to Room: The Poetry of Eli Mandel
    From Room to Room: The Poetry of Eli Mandel
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    From Room to Room: The Poetry of Eli Mandel

    By Eli Mandel and Andrew Stubbs

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    The career of Eli Mandel (1922–1992) was one of the most prolific and distinguished in all of Canadian literature, yet in recent years his work has gone unsung compared with that of such peers as Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Robert Kroetsch, Irving Layton, and P.K. Page. Though he was a critic, anthologist, and editor of national prominence, Mandel’s legacy resides most securely in his poetry, which earned many accolades.

    From Room to Room: The Poetry of Eli Mandel presents thirty-five of Mandel’s best poems written over four decades, from the 1950s to the 1980s. The selection covers the most prominent themes in Mandel’s work, including his Russian-Jewish heritage, his Saskatchewan upbringing, his interest in classical and biblical archetypes, and his concern for the political and social issues of his time. The book also highlights the way in which Mandel’s work bridged the formal attributes of modernist poetry with contemporary, sometimes experimental, poetics.

    Complete with a scholarly introduction by Peter Webb and a literary afterword by Andrew Stubbs, From Room to Room makes a worthy addition to the Laurier Poetry Series, which presents affordable editions of contemporary Canadian poetry for use in the classroom and the enjoyment of anyone wishing to read some of the finest poetry Canada has to offer.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilfrid Laurier University Press
    Release dateSep 28, 2011
    ISBN9781554588183
    From Room to Room: The Poetry of Eli Mandel
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    Eli Mandel

    Eli Mandel was a renowned Canadian poet, critic, editor, and anthologist for over three decades beginning in the 1950s. Born in Estevan, Saskatchewan, he taught for many years at York University. His many books included ten poetry monographs or collections, including An Idiot Joy, which won the Governor General’s Award for poetry in 1967.

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      From Room to Room - Eli Mandel

      From Room to Room

      The Poetry of Eli Mandel

      We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities.

      _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Mandel, Eli, 1922-1992

        From room to room : the poetry of Eli Mandel / selected, with an introduction by Peter Webb and an afterword by Andrew Stubbs.

      (Laurier poetry)

      Includes bibliographical references.

      Also available in electronic format.

      ISBN 978-1-55458-255-6

        1. Webb, Peter, 1968- 11. Title, in. Series: Laurier poetry series

      PS8526.A52A6 2011                C811’.54                C2010-906489-5

      ISBN 978-1-55458-320-1

      Electronic format.

        1. Webb, Peter, 1968- 11. Title, in. Series: Laurier poetry series (Online)

      PS8526.A52A6 2011a                C811’.54                C2010-906490-9

      _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

      Mandel poems © Ann Mandel

      Introduction © 2011 Peter Webb

      Afterword © 2011 Andrew Stubbs

      The cover reproduces The Nightmare, painted by Henry Fuseli ca. 1781. Cover design and text design by P.J. Woodland.

      Every reasonable effort has been made to acquire permission for copyright material used in this text, and to acknowledge all such indebtedness accurately. Any errors and omissions called to the publisher’s attention will be corrected in future printings.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written consent of the publisher or a licence from The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright). For an Access Copyright licence, visit www.accesscopyright.ca or call toll free to 1-800-893-5777.

      Table of Contents

      Foreword, Neil Besner

      Biographical Note

      Introduction, Peter Webb

      Minotaur Poems

      Estevan Saskatchewan

      The Fire Place

      In the Caves of My City

      City Park Merry-Go-Round

      Doll on the Mantelpiece

      Epilogue

      Mary Midnight’s Prologue

      Charles Isaac Mandel

      David

      Hippolytus

      The Meaning of the I CHING

      Girl on a High Wire

      Houdini

      The Madness of Our Polity

      The Speaking Earth

      From the North Saskatchewan

      Two Dream Songs for John Berryman

      On the 25th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz

      Room XV

      On the Renewal of Bombing in VietNam December, 1972

      Envoi

      from Out of Place

      the return

      signs

      doors of perception

      near Hirsch a Jewish cemetery

      STRIKE sept 1931

      estevan, 1934

      petroglyphs at st victor

      the doppelganger

      Pictures in an Institution

      On the Murder of Salvador Allende

      The Madwomen of the Plaza de Mayo

      In My 57th Year

      Zenith: Saving to Disk

      Afterword, Andrew Stubbs

      Acknowledgements

      Foreword

      At the beginning of the twenty-first century, poetry in Canada—writing and publishing it, reading and thinking about it—finds itself in a strangely conflicted place. We have many strong poets continuing to produce exciting new work, and there is still a small audience for poetry; but increasingly, poetry is becoming a vulnerable art, for reasons that don’t need to be rehearsed.

      But there are things to be done: we need more real engagement with our poets. There needs to be more access to their work in more venues—in classrooms, in the public arena, in the media—and there need to be more, and more different kinds, of publications that make the wide range of our contemporary poetry more widely available.

      The hope that animates this series from Wilfrid Laurier University Press is that these volumes help to create and sustain the larger readership that contemporary Canadian poetry so richly deserves. Like our fiction writers, our poets are much celebrated abroad; they should just as properly be better known at home.

      Our idea is to ask a critic (sometimes herself a poet) to select thirty-five poems from across a poet’s career; write an engaging, accessible introduction; and have the poet write an afterword. In this way, we think that the usual practice of teaching a poet through eight or twelve poems from an anthology is much improved upon; and readers in and out of classrooms will have more useful, engaging, and comprehensive introductions to a poet’s work. Readers might also come to see more readily, we hope, the connections among, as well as the distances between, the life and the work.

      It was the

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