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Poetry Canadian

Love Learned

by (author) Barry N. Olshen

Publisher
Quattro Books
Initial publish date
Mar 2016
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781927443880
    Publish Date
    Mar 2016
    List Price
    $18.00

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Description

As the title suggests, many of the poems in Love Learned have love as a principal subject: familial love, romantic love, or the elegiac celebration of love lost. The poems in the third part, called "Iterates," are structured by ritualized repetitions and are designed for recitation or at least to be read as if heard. Most of the poems in the collection are informed by psychoanalytic insights and have been influenced, directly or indirectly, by their author's psychotherapy practice.

About the author

Barry Olshen is Professor Emeritus, Senior Scholar at Glendon College, York University, and is currently working as a registered psychotherapist in private practice in Toronto. Both of these careers inform his poetry.His previous publications include five books and numerous articles on modern literature (especially the works of novelist John Fowles), drama and theatre history, literary theory, and the literature of the Hebrew Bible, as well as a chapbook of poetry (Memory Rooms, LyricalMyrical Press, 2002; rev. 2004).

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