Most Popular Books by E. D. Blodgett

as if there could be no other memory a tree invisible remembering itself In as if, E.D. Blodgett takes readers on journeys of contemplation in which he re-imagines the lyric form. Each line leaves the reader breathless as it runs into the next to form a continuous cycle, a continued breath. The delicate syntax of each piece pushes one forward, ever forward. The poems are Dantesque, leading the traveller through a deeper, darker world. As a collection, as if constitutes an ars poetica of Blodgett''s Apostrophes series. The poems explore the elements that make up the series-strict metrical patterns, the possibilities of breath, the endlessness and seamlessness of the spoken word, the incantation.

Reflecting Edmonton''s unique multicultural ambience, E. D. Blodgett wrote these poems in English and French, and had several translated into Cree, Michif, Chinese, and Ukranian. The powerful images and thoughtful metaphors in these short lyrics show readers the connections between nature, even within city limits, and the sublime, especially in the overwhelming silence we can sense outdoors--if we pay attention.

"Antonio Machado said, ''Every poet should create for himself a metaphysics which he need not expound, but which will lie implicit in his work.'' What lies implicit in "Apostrophes III: alone upon the earth, is a deep belief in the sacredness of the moment, the voices of that moment. E.D. Blodgett''s poetry gives us revelations, the depth of human experience when we ''pass into ourselves, '' the silence of ourselves, stillness and rapture, ''the sleeping that we are.'' Here is the grace of seeing and listening, the ecstasy of understanding. Here is being and time, both roses rising through flesh. "(Don Domanski)

Blodgett suggests that each of the several ''national'' groups that compose Canada develops unique narratives that demonstrate their different responses to the notion of nationhood and their sense of place within Canada''s borders.

A bilingual collection of renga poetry by two of Canada''s most celebrated poets in English and in French, each writing in his respective language in response to the other. A project of discourse itself, shared in dialogue between two poets, as they explore Novalisu0092 definition of poetry as u0093the truly absolute real.u0094 The poetic act is world-changing, the agglomeration of atoms as they fall through space u0096 a sort of u0093elective affinityu0094, or state of grace u0096 to constitute Being. If Lao Tzu reminds us that the Dao that can be named is not the eternal Dao, this renga, suffused with elements of the natural world, also recognizes that, in the words of Angelus Silesius, u0091u0091the unnameable, which we usually call God, is expressed and revealed through the Word.u0092u0092 Léveillé and Bloggett share an unprecedented dialogue that possesses both paradox and complete clarity of word in Canada''s two official languages.

"Transfiguration is an unusual book. It is a rare merging of Canada''s French and English literatures. Its creation in renga form involved alternating poems and poem responses by the authors, each written in the author''s mother tongue. Once finished, the authors then translated each other''s work producing truly bilingual creation that was co-published by a French and an English publisher. But more than this "Transfiguration is a beautiful book, a book of exquisite art and poetry.

Studie over het werk van de Canadese schrijfster (geb. 1931)

Prompted by renowned poet E.D. Blodgett''s deep love for Prague, Praha is a poetic homage to the legendary city''s rich lifeblood. With each poem accompanied by its Czech translation, the pieces in this collection lift the reader over the threshold of mythical understanding and into the bustling hub of larger cities. Praha flips Prague over and under to expose the place at its most stripped and beautiful.

"What interests me in poetry is the interplay of language, the page, and silence. Heaven falls out of words because possibility is in the page, another kind of heaven; I wonder if that''s the only heaven we are given to know in life." -- Edward Dickinson (Ted) Blodgett E.D. Blodgett''s final volume of poems, Walking Into God, is the culmination of the poet''s lifelong devotion to a poetry and poetics of the sacred. His mastery of craft, including cadence and sustained musicality, is unsurpassed in Canadian literature. Though this volume is divided into two parts (or sequences), these compressed poems present as a single long poem that explores the processes of walking, moving, changing, and evolving within a unified field.

Un livre bilingue sans ètre pourtant traduit Where languages speak in easy dialogue Invitation et offrande a gift A seasoned poet au sommet de son art