B.A.

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  • Bagguley, Philip. "Wolfe, Humbert (1885–1940)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Oxford: OUP, 2011.
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  • Mellini, Peter. "Seaman, Sir Owen, baronet (1861–1936)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. May 2006.
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Christopher John Brennan was born in Sydney, Australia in 1870 of Irish parents. Brennan first studied for the priesthood, but abandoned his vocation at St. Ignatius College for the University of Sydney. There Brennan concentrated on classics and philosophy, graduating from the University with first class honours in 1891. He received a James King of Irrawang Travelling Scholarship, which allowed him to study at the University of Berlin. However, Brennan returned to Sydney in 1894 without the doctorate, due to both his attraction to the Berlin intellectual society and an affair with Anna Werth, his landlady’s daughter. In 1897 he married Anna Werth in Sydney, and they had four children. The marriage faltered after 1907, and Brennan became a well-known presence in Sydney’s café society. Brennan was heavily influenced by European Symbolist poetry, and in 1913 he published Poems, which has remained his most well-known work. In 1920 Brennan was appointed professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Sydney. He had long wanted this post, but the wait may have been due to his alcoholism and the eroticism in his 1897 poetry collection. He was dismissed by the University Senate in 1925 due to the controversy over his divorce and subsequent affair with Violet Singer. In his last years Brennan was often depressed as a result of Singer’s death in 1925; he also lived in poverty, helped by occasional teaching opportunities, friends and relatives. Brennan died in 1932.

  • Clark, Axel, "Brennan, Christopher John (1870-1932)." Australian Dictionary of Biography. VII. Melbourne University Press, 1979. 397-99. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070405b.htm
  • Brennan, Christopher. XXI poems: MDCCCXCIII-MDCCCXCVII: towards the Source.. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1897.
  • --. Poems: 1913, Sydney: G. B. Philip and Son, 1914. See Australian Poets eTexts Project, The Sydney Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS)
  • --. A Chant of Doom: and other Verses. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1918. Digital facsimile by the University of Sydney Library, 1999. See http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/ozlit
  • --. The Burden of Tyre. Sydney: Harry F. Chaplin, 1953.
  • --. The Verse of Christopher Brennan. Ed. A. R. Chisholm and J. J. Quinn. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1960.
  • --. The Prose of Christopher Brennan. Ed. A. R. Chisholm and J. J. Quinn. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1962.
  • --. Christopher Brennan. Ed. Terry Sturm. St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 1984.

We are grateful for access to AustLit in the preparation of these poems.

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  • Caple, Natalee. The Heart is its own Reason. London, ON: Insomniac Press, 1998. [fiction]
  • --. Mackerel Sky. Markham, ON: Thomas Allen, 2004. [fiction]
  • --. A More Tender Ocean. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2000.
  • --. The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1999. [fiction]
  • --. The Semiconducting Dictionary (Our Strindberg). Toronto: ECW Press, 2010. PS 8555 A653S45 2010 Robarts Library
  • -- and Michelle Berry, eds. The Notebooks: Interviews and New Fiction From Young Contemporary Authors. Toronto: Anchor Canada, 2002.
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For more poems, see the Griffin Prize

 

and The Academy of America Poets

 

  • Diamonds
  • Noyta CCCP
  • Ten Maps of Sardonic Wit

and The Poetry Foundation

 

  • The Great Order of the Universe

All Christian Bök's works are in copyright. Permission must be obtained from his publishers before reproducing his writings.

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Carol's Shield's works include

 

    Poetry
  • Others. Ottawa: Borealis, 1972.
  • Intersect. Ottawa: Borealis, 1974.
  • Coming to Canada. Ed. Christopher Levenson. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1992.

Novels

  • Small Ceremonies. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1976.
  • The Box Garden. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1977.
  • Happenstance. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1980.
  • A Fairly Conventional Woman. MacMillan, 1982.
  • Various Miracles. Stoddart, 1985. (short stories)
  • Swann: A Mystery. Stoddart, 1987.
  • The Orange Fish. Random House, 1989. (short stories)
  • A Celibate Season. Carol Shields and Blanche Howard. Coteau, 1991.
  • Republic of Love. Random House, 1992.
  • The Stone Diaries. Random House, 1993.
  • Larry's Party. Random House, 1997.
  • Dressing Up For The Carnival. Random House, 2000. (short stories)
  • Unless. 2002.
  • Collected Stories. Random House, 2003. (short stories)

 

    Criticism and Biography
  • Susanna Moodie: Voice and Vision. Ottawa: Borealis, 1976.
  • Jane Austen. Penguin/Viking, 2001.
  • Dropped Threads: What We Weren't Told. Ed. Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson. Random House, 2001.
  • Dropped Threads 2: More of What We Weren't Told. Ed. Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson,. Random House, 2003.

 

    Plays
  • Departures and Arrivals. Blizzard, 1990.
  • Fashion, Power, Guilt and the Charity of Families. Carol Shields and Catherine Shields. Blizzard, 1993.
  • Anniversary. Carol Shields and Dave Williamson. Blizzard, 1998.
  • Thirteen Hands and Other Plays. Vintage, 2001.
Degree
Biography

Carol's Shield's works include

 

    Poetry
  • Others. Ottawa: Borealis, 1972.
  • Intersect. Ottawa: Borealis, 1974.
  • Coming to Canada. Ed. Christopher Levenson. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1992.

Novels

  • Small Ceremonies. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1976.
  • The Box Garden. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1977.
  • Happenstance. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1980.
  • A Fairly Conventional Woman. MacMillan, 1982.
  • Various Miracles. Stoddart, 1985. (short stories)
  • Swann: A Mystery. Stoddart, 1987.
  • The Orange Fish. Random House, 1989. (short stories)
  • A Celibate Season. Carol Shields and Blanche Howard. Coteau, 1991.
  • Republic of Love. Random House, 1992.
  • The Stone Diaries. Random House, 1993.
  • Larry's Party. Random House, 1997.
  • Dressing Up For The Carnival. Random House, 2000. (short stories)
  • Unless. 2002.
  • Collected Stories. Random House, 2003. (short stories)

 

    Criticism and Biography
  • Susanna Moodie: Voice and Vision. Ottawa: Borealis, 1976.
  • Jane Austen. Penguin/Viking, 2001.
  • Dropped Threads: What We Weren't Told. Ed. Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson. Random House, 2001.
  • Dropped Threads 2: More of What We Weren't Told. Ed. Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson,. Random House, 2003.

 

    Plays
  • Departures and Arrivals. Blizzard, 1990.
  • Fashion, Power, Guilt and the Charity of Families. Carol Shields and Catherine Shields. Blizzard, 1993.
  • Anniversary. Carol Shields and Dave Williamson. Blizzard, 1998.
  • Thirteen Hands and Other Plays. Vintage, 2001.
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Biography

For more poems, see the Academy of America Poets

 

  • Once in the 40's
  • With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach

and The Poetry Foundation

 

  • A Family Turn
  • A Human Condition
  • A Message from the Wanderer
  • A Posy
  • A Survey
  • A Tentative Welcome to Readers
  • Accountability
  • Across Kansas
  • After Arguing against the Contention That Art Must Come from Discontent
  • After Plotinus
  • An Introduction to Literature
  • An Oregon Message
  • Annals of T'ai Chi: "Push Hands"
  • As Pippa Lilted
  • At Earle Birney's School
  • At the Bomb Testing Site
  • At the Old Place
  • At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border
  • Augustine
  • Bess
  • Bi-Focal
  • Boom Town
  • Brother
  • By the Escalator
  • Chickens the Weasel Killed
  • Coming Back
  • Communion at Lunch
  • Even Now
  • Faint Message
  • Following
  • Footnote
  • Found in a Storm
  • Gasoline
  • Growing Up: Mother
  • How I Escaped
  • Humanities Lecture
  • In a Time of Need
  • In Dear Detail, by Ideal Light
  • In Fog
  • In Fur
  • In Medias Res
  • In Response to a Question: "What Does the Earth Say?"
  • In Sublette's Barn
  • In the Deep Channel
  • Juke Joint
  • Learning a Word While Climbing
  • Lines To Stop Talking By
  • Looking Across the River
  • Meditation
  • Monuments for a Friendly Girl at a Tenth Grade Party
  • Near
  • Noticing
  • Oak
  • On an Island in the San Juans
  • On Penitencia Creek
  • On Winter Ridge
  • One Day in August
  • One Home
  • One of the Fathers
  • Our City Is Guarded by Automatic Rockets
  • Peace Walk
  • Portrait of a Refugee Musician
  • Presenting These Pieces
  • Priest Lake
  • Reaching Out To Turn On a Light
  • Report to Crazy Horse
  • Resolutions
  • Return to Single-Shot
  • Sayings from the Northern Ice
  • Sending These Messages
  • Shepherd
  • Stories To Live in the World With
  • Subsistence
  • Sunday Avenue
  • Super Market
  • That Weather
  • The Bravery of Love
  • The Collector
  • The Day I Got the Good Idea
  • The Day Millicent Found the World
  • The Day You Are Reading This
  • The Farm on the Great Plains
  • The Girl Engaged to the Boy Who Died
  • The Guitar by the Chair
  • The Magic Mountain
  • The Move to California
  • The Museum at Tillamook
  • The Rescued Year
  • The Thought Machine
  • The Well Rising
  • Things We Did That Meant Something
  • Third Street
  • This Room When Winter Comes
  • This Town: Winter Morning
  • Thought, the Pacifist
  • Traveling through the Dark
  • Twelve Threads
  • Two Evenings
  • Uncle Bill Visits
  • Visions
  • Vocation
  • Walking Away an Undeclared War
  • Walking West
  • Watching Her Go
  • Watching the Jet Planes Dive
  • Weather Report
  • What I Heard Whispered at the Edge of Liberal, Kansas
  • With Neighbors One Afternoon
  • Your Life

     

      • Garrison, Steve. "William Stafford". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 5: American Poets Since World War II, First Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Donald J. Greiner, University of South Carolina. The Gale Group, 1980. pp. 292-299.
      • Stafford, William. West of Your City. Los Gatos, CA:Talisman Press, 1960.
      • --. Traveling through the Dark. New York, NY: Harper, 1962.
      • --. The Rescued Year. New York, NY: Harper, 1966. PS3537 .T143 R4 Robarts Library.
      • --. Eleven Untitled Poems. Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1968.
      • --. Weather: Poems. Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1969.
      • --. Allegiances. New York, NY: Harper, 1970. PS3537 .T143 A8 Robarts Library.
      • --. Temporary Facts. Athens, OH: Duane Schneider Press, 1970.
      • --. In the Clock of Reason. Victoria, BC: Soft Press, 1973. PS3537 .T143 I5 Robarts Library.
      • --. Someday, Maybe. New York, NY: Harper, 1973. PS3537 .T143 S6 1973 Robarts Library.
      • --. Going Places: Poems. Reno, NV: West Coast Poetry Review, 1974. PS3537 .T143 G72 John W. Graham Library at Trinity College.
      • -- (With son, Kim Robert Stafford). Braided Apart. Lewiston, ID: Confluence, 1976.
      • --. The Design on the Oriole. Mt. Horeb, WI: Night Heron Press, 1977.
      • --. Stories That Could Be True: New and Collected Poems. New York, NY: Harper, 1977. PS3537 .T143 S7 John W. Graham Library at Trinity College.
      • --. Tuft by Puff. Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1978.
      • --. Things That Happen Where There Aren't Any People. Brockport, NY: BOA Editions, 1980. PS3537 .T143 T44 1980 Robarts Library.
      • --. Sometimes Like A Legend: Puget Sound Poetry. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1981
      • .

      • --. A Glass Face in the Rain: New Poems. New York, NY: Harper, 1982. PS3537 .T143 G5 1982 Robarts Library.
      • --. Roving across Fields: A Conversation and Uncollected Poems 1942-1982. Edited by Thom Tammaro. Daleville, IN: Barnwood, 1983. PS3537 .T143 R6 1983 Robarts Library.
      • --. Smoke's Way: Poems from Limited Editions, 1968-1981. Port Townsend, WA: Graywolf, 1983.
      • --. Listening Deep: Poems. Great Barrington, MA: Penmaen Press, 1984.
      • --. An Oregon Message. New York, NY: Harper, 1987. PS3537 .T143 07 1987 Robarts Library.
      • --. Passwords: Poems. New York, NY: Harper, 1991. PS3537 .T143 P34 1991 Robarts Library.
      • --. My Name Is William Tell. Lewiston, ID: Confluence Press, 1992.
      • --. Learning to Live in the World: Earth Poems. Edited by Jerry Watson and Linda Obbink. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1994.
      • --. The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems of William Stafford. Edited by Robert Bly. New York, NY: Harper, 1994. PS3537 .T143 A6 Robarts Library.
      • --. The Methow River Poems. Lewiston, ID: Confluence Press, 1995.
      • --. Even in Quiet Places: Poems. Afterword By Kim Stafford. Lewiston, ID: Confluence Press, 1996. PS3537 .T143 E93 1996 Robarts Library.
      • --. The Way It Is: New & Selected Poems. Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1998. PS3537 .T143 W37 1998 Robarts Library.
Degree
Biography
  • McClaurin-Allen, Irma. "Audre Lorde". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 41: Afro-American Poets Since 1955. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Trudier Harris, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Thadious M. Davis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Gale Group, 1985. pp. 217-222.
  • Lorde, Audre. The First Cities. Introduction by Diane di Prima. Providence, RI :Poets Press, 1968.
  • --. Cables to Rage. Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1970.
  • --. From a Land Where Other People Live. Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1973. PS3562 .O75 F7 Robarts Library
  • --. The New York Head Shop and Museum. Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1974.
  • --. Coal. New York, NY: Norton, 1976. PS3562 .O75 C6 Robarts Library
  • --. Between Our Selves. Crested Butte, CO: Eidolon, 1976.
  • --. The Black Unicorn. New York, NY: Norton, 1978. PS3562 .O75 B55 Robarts Library
  • --. Chosen Poems Old and New. New York, NY: Norton, 1982. PS3562 .O75 C4 1982 Robarts Library
  • --. Our Dead Behind Us. New York, NY: Norton, 1986. PS3562 .O75 O8 1986 Robarts Library
  • --. Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New. New York, NY: Norton, 1992. PS3562 .O75 C4 1992 Robarts Library
  • --. The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance. New York, NY: Norton, 1993.
  • --. The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde. New York, NY: Norton, 1997. PS3562 .O75 A17 1997 Robarts Library
Degree
Biography

For more poems, see the Academy of America Poets

and The Poetry Foundation

 

  • Apparitions Are Not Singular Occurrences
  • Belly Dancer
  • Blue Monday
  • Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch
  • Inside Out
  • Picture of a Girl Drawn in Black and White
  • Smudging
  • Tearing Up My Mother's Letters
  • Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons
  • The Father of My Country
  • The Hitchhikers
  • The Photos
  • The Ring
  • The Story of Richard Maxfield
  • Uneasy Rider

     

      • Harris, Mark. "Diane Wakoski". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 5: American Poets Since World War II, First Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Donald J. Greiner, University of South Carolina. The Gale Group, 1980. pp. 355-366.
      • Wakoski, Diane. Coins and Coffins. New York, NY: Hawk's Well Press, 1962.
      • --. Dream Sheet. New York, NY: Software Press, 1965.
      • --. Discrepancies and Apparitions. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1966.
      • --. The George Washington Poems. New York, NY: Riverrun Press, 1967.
      • --. The Diamond Merchant. Cambridge, MA: Sans Souci Press, 1968.
      • --. Inside the Blood Factory. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968.
      • --. Greed. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, Parts 1 and 2, 1968, Parts 3 and 4, 1969, Parts 5, 6, 7, 1971, Parts 8, 9, 11, 1973.
      • --. The Lament of the Lady Bank Dick. Cambridge, MA: Sans Souci Press, 1969.
      • --. The Moon Has a Complicated Geography. Palo Alto, CA: Odda Tala Press, 1969.
      • --. Poems. Key Printing Co., 1969.
      • --. Some Black Poems for the Buddha's Birthday. Pierripont Press, 1969.
      • --. Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons. Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1969.
      • --. Love, You Big Fat Snail. San Francisco, CA: Tenth Muse, 1970.
      • --. Black Dream Ditty for Billy "the Kid" M Seen in Dr. Generosity's Bar Recruiting for Hell's Angels and Black Mafia. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1970.
      • --. The Wise Men Drawn to Kneel in Wonder at the Fact So of Itself. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1970.
      • --. The Magellanic Clouds. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1970.
      • --. On Barbara's Shore. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1971.
      • --. The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1971.
      • --. This Water Baby: For Tony. Santa Barbara, CA: Unicorn Press, 1971.
      • --. Exorcism. Boston, MA: My Dukes, 1971.
      • --. The Purple Finch Song. Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1972.
      • --. Sometimes a Poet Will Hijack the Moon. Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1972.
      • --. Smudging. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1972.
      • --. The Pumpkin Pie: or, Reassurances Are Always False, Tho We Love Them, Only Physics Counts. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1972.
      • --. Winter Sequences. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1973.
      • --. Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1973.
      • --. Stilllife: Michael, Silver Flute, and Violets. Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut Library, 1973.
      • --. The Owl and the Snake: A Fable. Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press , 1973.
      • --. The Wandering Tatler. Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1974.
      • --. Trilogy. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974.
      • --. Looking for the King of Spain. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1974.
      • --. Abalone. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1974.
      • --. Virtuoso Literature for Two and Four Hands. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975.
      • --. The Fable of the Lion and the Scorpion. Milwaukee, WI: Pentagram Press, 1975.
      • --. The Laguna Contract of Diane Wakoski. Madison, WI: Crepuscular Press, 1976.
      • --. George Washington's Camp Cups. Madison, WI: Red Ozier Press, 1976.
      • --. Waiting for the King of Spain. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1976.
      • --. The Last Poem. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1976.
      • --. The Ring. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977.
      • --. Spending Christmas with the Man from Receiving at Sears. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977.
      • --. Overnight Projects with Wood. Madison, WI: Red Ozier Press, 1977.
      • --. Pachelbel's Canon. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977.
      • --. The Man Who Shook Hands. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978.
      • --. Trophies. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1979.
      • --. Cap of Darkness. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1980.
      • --. Saturn's Rings. New York, NY: Targ Editions, 1982.
      • --. Divers. Barbarian Press, 1982.
      • --. The Lady Who Drove Me to the Airport. Worcester, MA: Metacom Press, 1982.
      • --. The Magician's Feastletters. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1982.
      • --. The Collected Greed, Parts 1-13. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1984.
      • --. The Managed World. New York, NY: Red Ozier Press, 1985.
      • --. Why My Mother Likes Liberace: A Musical Selection. Tucson, AZ: SUN/Gemini Press, 1985.
      • --. Celebration of the Rose: For Norman on Christmas Day. Montclair, NJ: Caliban Press, 1987.
      • --. Roses. Montclair, NJ: Caliban Press, 1987.
      • --. Husks of Wheat. Northridge, CA: California State University, Northridge Library, 1987.
      • --. Emerald Ice: Selected Poems 1962-1987. Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1988.
      • --. Medea the Sorceress ("Archaeology of Movies and Books" series). Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1991.
      • --. Jason the Sailor ("Archaeology of Movies and Books" series). Black Sparrow Press. Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1993.
      • --. The Emerald City of Las Vegas ("Archaeology of Movies and Books" series). Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1995.
      • --. Argonaut Rose ("Archaeology of Movies and Books" series). Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1998.
      • --. The Butcher's Apron: New and Selected Poems. Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 2000.