E.D. Blodgett

An Ark of Koans is a meditation on the mystery of what happens at the moment it happens. Although it takes animals as its threshold, animals only serve as innocent guides toward fathoming, if not understanding, events as small, inconceivable miracles.

Here, in the second volume of a series, E.D. Blodgett extends the meditations of Apostrophes: woman at a piano, which won the Governor General's award for poetry in 1996. An astonishing hybrid of Symboliste vision and Elizabethan form, through you I is a lovely offering from one of Canada's leading writers.

Governor-General’s award-winning poet E.D. Blodgett continues his series of meditations on love, living, and loss. This intelligent collection offers more of Blodgett’s lush imagery and deep questioning within the apostrophe form. A lovely offering from one of Canada’s leading writers.

E.D. Blodgett, winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, returns to Apostrophes with a music passing through his eyes. His latest collection, open the grass, brings glimpses into eternity, visions of a translucent muse trickling through fingers, and places of silence, and darkness, and epiphany. Blodgett’s poetry has the ability to pen …

Apostrophe 1. Rhet. A figure of speech, by which a speaker or writer suddenly stops in his discourse, and turns to address pointedly some person or thing, either present or absent; an exclamatory address. (OED)Renowned poet E.D. Blodgett extends his lyrical meditations to the limits of human knowing in Apostrophes VII: Sleep, You, a Tree. By remain …

A lament in light. A breath-taking memorial. Poetry and photography that compose the landscapes of remembrance.Once I saw your breathsuspended in the airthen I understoodhow fire could be whitewhen I exhaled my breathfollowed yours into the sky that holds us both“Rich, profound, engaging, and written with an emotional depth rarely seen in much of …

The literary history of a nation is one of the main cornerstones of its national identity. As a result of Canada's diverse cultural history, however, its literary history is varied and, as E.D. Blodgett contends, is composed of five parts that work to create the whole. These parts include English Canada, French Canada, First Nations communities, In …

Blodgett wrote his poems for a small park in English and some in French, but was able to have some of them translated into Cree, Michif, Chinese, and Ukrainian. This reflects Edmonton’s unique multicultural ambience and the roles of diverse cultures in the making of the city. The powerful images and thoughtful metaphors in these short lyrics sho …

Prompted by renowned poet E.D. Blodgett’s deep love for Prague,Praha is a poetic homage to the legendary city’s richlifeblood. With each poem accompanied by its Czech translation, thepieces in this collection lift the reader over the threshold ofmythical understanding and into heart of one Europe’s loveliestcities. Featuring the striking pain …

The result of a dialogue between poets and scholars on the meaning and making of the sacred, this book endeavours to determine how the sacred emerges in sacred script as well as in poetic discourse. It ranges through scholarship in areas as apparently disparate as postmodernism and Buddhism. The perspectives developed are various and without closu …