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Village of Unsettled Yearnings
Concensus and dissent, persistence and rapid change were at the heart of Yarrow's rich cultural life. These tensions, especially the inevitability of assimilation, walked hand in hand with the young pioneer settlers born in Russia and the next generation born in Canada. There was no possibility that the new generation would be absorbed into a Russian colony ethos or would move elsewhere in order to perpetuate it. Those who grew up in the early years of this community cannot go home again save in memory; the memories of a way of life and its webs of relationships and their meanings will probably die with that generation or those just a few years younger. "Village of Unsettled Yearnings" harnesses these memories to the surviving records and gives words to them.
Find What Isn't Missing
Passpofg is a poetic passport to travel to different countries through the lens of Leonard Neufeldt. Nature, Cities, Waterways and life are explored in depth and vivid imagery.
Nearness
This is an enlightening book of poetry from a learned man of letters. It is about living, connecting and being at ease and at home with the world and oneself.
Painting Over Sketches of Anatolia
Painting Over Sketches of Anatolia is Leonard Neufeldt's seventh book of poetry. In it, we find wars, revolutions, the holocaust, obsolete belief systems, Alzheimer's and ever-present potentialities of the autistic as well as the illusory in the spoken or written word. A dying Plato tries to fight off intrusions of reality. Neufeldt questions whether one can find rootedness in an ethos quite unlike one's own. The realities of discovering and settling in Turkey are uppermost, with "Gulls of the Bosporus/ screaming behind you, / a city's minarets floating free." But the poems offer deepening lenses as the narrator enters a place of beauty, mystery, legend, painful history, irksome tourists, welcome and joy -- the joy of olive picking, for example, with Mamut's stunning wife: "The rake/ [she] gives me with a Yes/No shake/ of her head is smooth in my hands/ like skin tingling with details as I climb/ the ladder's rungs." As for the snake in the stone wall that does no harm, "May it live for a thousand years."
Passport
Passport is your ticket to mind travel with the author to the places he is visiting. His poetry is vivid, vibrant, heartfelt while remaining down to earth. Poetry that runs the gamut from beginnings to endings and beyond.
A Cappella
As an intricate choral music lovingly arranged, this gathering makes manifest a rich community of accomplished voices, a community whose immediate concerns are various, whose informing circumstances diverge, but whose common chord remains apprehensible and compelling--a long devotion to peace attaining to a concurrent devotion to beauty. --Scott Cairns.
Emerson's Nonlinear Nature
"Examines Emersonian naturalism from the standpoint of nonlinearity, offering new ways of reading and thinking about Emerson's stance toward nature and the influence of science on his thought. Windolph breaks new ground by exploring how considerations of shape and the act of seeing underpin all of Emerson's theories about nature"--Provided by publisher.
Mennonite Women in Canada
Mennonite Women in Canada traces the complex social history and multiple identities of Canadian Mennonite women over 200 years. Marlene Epp explores women’s roles, as prescribed and as lived, within the contexts of immigration and settlement, household and family, church and organizational life, work and education, and in response to social trends and events. The combined histories of Mennonite women offer a rich and fascinating study of how women actively participate in ordering their lives within ethno-religious communities.
The Coat is Thin
The Coat is Thin, a collection of highly descriptive poems, comprises lyrical meditations, narratives, dramatic monologues, and verse essays."Always respectful of history and mindful of the moment, the poet speaks in language that is precise, rich in imagery and resonant. This collection will reward every re-reading," observes Sarah Klassen. Patricia Henley reports that the poems "make me weep for the woman I once was among the fir and cottonwoods, the stars west of Williams Lake, my immigrant kin. Read them and prepare to be 'seized by joy.'"
Emerson, Thoreau, and the Role of the Cultural Critic
Reinterprets important works of the social criticism of Emerson and Thoreau as being based in defense of community.
