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      The Experience of Meaning

      Jan Zwicky,Jan Zwicky

      A provocative exploration of the experience of meaning, and a clarion call for its recovery in contemporary culture.

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      The Experience of Meaning

      Jan Zwicky,Jan Zwicky

      A provocative exploration of the experience of meaning, and a clarion call for its recovery in contemporary culture.

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      The Long Walk

      Jan Zwicky

      Poet and philosopher Jan Zwicky bears passionate witness to the leading edge of environmental cataclysm.

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      Wisdom & Metaphor

      Jan Zwicky

      In the foreword to Wisdom & Metaphor, Jan Zwicky observes that those who think metaphorically are enabled to think truly, because the shape of their thinking echoes the shape of…

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      Once upon a Time in the West

      Jan Zwicky

      Western civilization is over. So begins Jan Zwicky's trenchant exploration of the roots of global cultural and ecological collapse. Once Upon a Time in the West documents how a narrow…

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      Once upon a Time in the West

      Jan Zwicky

      Western civilization is over. So begins Jan Zwicky's trenchant exploration of the roots of global cultural and ecological collapse. Once Upon a Time in the West documents how a narrow…

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      Alkibiades’ Love: Essays in Philosophy

      Jan Zwicky,Jan Zwicky

      A highly original series of essays on the nature and practice of philosophy.

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      Lyric Philosophy

      Jan Zwicky

      In this ground-breaking study on the nature of philosophy, Jan Zwicky demonstrates how much of potential philosophical significance is lost if our notion of meaningful language is constrained by narrow…

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      Lyric Philosophy: Toronto Studies in Philosophy

      Jan Zwicky

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      Lyric Philosophy: Toronto Studies in Philosophy

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      Songs for Relinquishing the Earth

      Jan Zwicky

      Songs for Relinquishing the Earth contains many poems of praise and grief for the imperilled earth drawing frequently on Jan Zwicky’s experience as a musician and philosopher and on the…

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      Robinson’s Crossing

      Jan Zwicky

      My great-
      grandmother slept
      in a boxcar on the night
      before she made the crossing. The steel
      ended in Sangudo then, there was
      no trestle on the Pembina, no siding…

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      Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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      One of the greatest philosophical works of all time, in a new translation for the twenty-first century

      Widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth…

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      Chamber Music: The Poetry of Jan Zwicky

      Jan Zwicky

      Arcing across thirty years and seven volumes, Jan Zwicky’s poetry has always been acutely musical (and sensitive to the silence out of which music comes). In the compositions in Chamber…

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      Wittgenstein Elegies: Brick Books Classics 6

      Jan Zwicky

      New and revised edition of an early work by the Governor General’s Award?winning poet.

      On the occasion of the press’s 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the last…

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      Learning to Die: Wisdom in the Age of Climate Crisis

      Robert Bringhurst,Jan Zwicky

      Two powerful writers draw upon philosophy to find a roadmap for grace and equanimity in the face of the death of our planet.

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      Vittoria Colonna: Selections from the Rime Spirituali with Photographs of Josep Maria Subirachs’ Passion Facade

      Jan Zwicky

      The first woman to achieve wide recognition as a poet in Renaissance Italy, Vittoria Colonna was known for her ardent, but also deeply spiritual, verses. This book reproduces ten of…

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      Power Politics: Poems

      Margaret Atwood

      A groundbreaking meditation on sexual politics, love, and human tenacity from the world-renowned pioneer of feminist writing and prophetic author of The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood.

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      Sixty-Seven Ontological Studies: 49 Poems and 18 Photographs

      Jan Zwicky

      Sixty-Seven Ontological Studies is a double-stranded book of intense lyric reflections on the fundamental essences of things.

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      The Shape of Content: Creative Writing in Mathematics and Science

      A collection of poems, short stories, essays, play excerpts that give shape to mathematical and scientific content. It portrays by example how various people work creatively with ideas from mathematics…

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      Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

      Ludwig Wittgenstein

      Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, this was the only philosophical work Wittgenstein published during his lifetime.

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      The Collected Poetry of Carol Shields

      Carol Shields

      Carol Shields received both the Pulitzer Prize and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for her novel The Stone Diaries. Yet she also wrote hundreds of poems over the span…

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      The Collected Poetry of Carol Shields

      Carol Shields

      Carol Shields received both the Pulitzer Prize and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for her novel The Stone Diaries. Yet she also wrote hundreds of poems over the span…

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