Brick Books and the Long Poem
Brick Books celebrates poetry all year long. But April is National Poetry Month so I thought I would create one more list for you - this time it's long poems. Stan Dragland, co-founder of Brick Books, wrote in 2003 when we compiled a list of our titles that we consider to be "long poems" - "A long poem, at least in Canada, is a book of poems, or poems and material in other forms, that has some sort of overall unity, sometimes narrative, sometimes something else. It's a pretty elastic category." "Long poems belong by practice and definition to what Ezra Pound called the 'prose tradition' in poetry; that is, their tendency to a narrative sense of the passage of time drives them by and into history beyond the capacities and preoccupations of the lyric." Sharon Thesen, "Introduction," The New Long Poem Anthology. Updated May 6, 2018
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Abraham
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All Our Wonder Unavenged
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The Anatomy of Keys
Poems
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Angel and the Bear
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Elimination Dance
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Eyes Like Pigeons
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From the Great Above She Opened Her Ear to the Great Below
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God's Geography
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The Grey Islands
Brick Books Classics 2
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Hard Light
Brick Books Classics 5
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Hired Hands
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Hologram
A Book of Glosas
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Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei
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Ledger, The
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Letters From A Long Illness With The World
The D.H. Lawrence Poems
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Little Horse
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The Luskville Reductions
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Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems
The Sawchuk Poems
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Pale as Real Ladies
Poems for Pauline Johnson
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Pisscat Songs
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Renga
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Riffs
Brick Books Classics 3
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Robinson's Crossing
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