Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences
 

Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences

by Jan Zwicky

For the past several years, Jan Zwicky has been developing a definition and working examples of the word “lyric.” Her writing has taken the shape of poetry and philosophy, neither necessarily confined to the traditions of those genres. Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences is the latest in this ongoing focus, previously explored in collections like Songs for Relinquishing the Earth... (read more)

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Jan Zwicky is a tall, (forgive the term) bookish, and powerful woman, despite her slender physique. When she gives a reading she commands the space with her confident intellect, and cottony easyness with her own work. She reads it like a character in Six Feet Under expressing spontaneous emotion: with candour, freedom, and virility. In film land she'd be portrayed by Nicole Kidman.

So, it is a shock to me that a mind like hers produces work that is as simple as it is...

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