 | Writing Lovers: Reading Canadian Love Poetry by Women Subjects: Love poetry Canadian (English) -- History and criticism; Women poets Canadian (English); Canadian poetry (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Canadian poetry (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Is it possible to capture something as ephemeral as love with mere words? Méira Cook draws on Lacan, Derrida, Barthes, and Kristeva to wrestle with the theoretical problems of representing the unrepresentable. In Writing Lovers she searches for a language adequate to articulating the discourse of passion, desire, and longing in the love poetry of Dionne Brand, Elizabeth Smart, Daphne Marlatt, Dorothy Livesay, Kristjana Gunnars, and Nicole Markotic. Cook Méira : Méira Cook, a widely published poet and scholar, is the author of Text into Flesh: A Lacanian Reading of the Short Stories of I.B. Singer. She lives in Winnipeg.Méira Cook, a widely published poet and scholar, is the author of Text into Flesh: A Lacanian Reading of the Short Stories of I.B. Singer. She lives in Winnipeg. |
