{"product_id":"9783032444134","title":"Karen Solie’s Poetry The Mechanics of Dwelling","description":"\u003ch3\u003eModern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eKaren Solie’s Poetry\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eThe Mechanics of Dwelling\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eRobert Lecker\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume is the first full-length critical study of Karen Solie’s poetry. The book argues that her work develops a distinctive poetics of dwelling: an effort to inhabit a damaged, unstable world through attention, errancy, skepticism, and provisional forms of knowledge. For Solie, attention functions as a kind of spiritual practice, while error, wandering, and uncertainty become necessary modes of perception rather than failures of understanding. The study brings Solie’s poems into conversation with an unusually eclectic range of philosophical, literary, scientific, and cultural contexts that illuminate her work. At the same time, it shows how Solie’s secular practices of observation acquire an increasingly religious force, and how solitude emerges as a crucial condition for an art of ethical and imaginative commitment. Solie’s poetry confronts environmental precarity, metaphysical estrangement, and the limits of language while repeatedly asking what it means to remain attentive, responsive, and alive within a world resistant to closure and human mastery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Lecker\u003c\/strong\u003e is Greenshields Professor of English at McGill University, Canada, specializing in Canadian literature. He co-edited the journal \u003cem\u003eEssays on Canadian Writing\u003c\/em\u003e from 1975 to 2004 and was co-publisher of ECW Press from 1977 to 2003. His books include \u003cem\u003eOn the Line: Readings in the Short Fiction of Clark Blaise, John Metcalf, and Hugh Hood\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eRobert Kroetsch\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eAnother I: The Fictions of Clark Blaise\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eMaking It Real: The Canonization of English-Canadian Literature\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eDr Delicious: Memoirs of a Life in CanLit\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Cadence of Civil Elegies\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eKeepers of the Code: English-Canadian Literary Anthologies and the Representation of Nation\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eWho Was Doris Hedges? The Search for Canada’s First Literary Agent\u003c\/em\u003e. He is the editor of \u003cem\u003eCanadian Canons: Essays in Literary Value\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eCanadian Writers and Their Works\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eDo You Want To Be Happy and Write?: Critical Essays on Michael Ondaatje\u003c\/em\u003e. He received McGill’s H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching, was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2012, and received its Lorne Pierce Medal in 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e18 March 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032444134\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62317195395212,"sku":"9783032444134","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783032444134","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}