Poetry Train America
Poetry Train America

Author: John E WordSlinger

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-06-09

Total Pages: 672

ISBN-13: 1304119785

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A colorful combination of storytelling, poets, poetry, and railways presented using America's fifty states as a backdrop. 3 men who travel the U.S.A. in the year of 2012... To write a written documentary on Poets and the Railroad in our times... When they sleep they get taken back in time to the 19th Century, when the roads were built, and they have such great experiences, and meet key Poets, and figures... Upon waking they have conversations about Poets from the 20th Century, and RxR events... Then it goes into their written documentary on Poetry and Poets now... Main Characters that Andy and Red and Train Marshal Charlie journey within their Dreams, and they are Alphonso G. Newcomer, Mad Bear, Jung Hem Sing, Mr. Welchberry, Patrick O'Hara, Jimmy New Orleans, and many more

Clackety Track: Poems about Trains
Clackety Track: Poems about Trains

Author: Skila Brown

Publisher: Candlewick

Published: 2019-03-12

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 0763690473

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Queue up for a whistle-stop tour of trains of all kinds, narrated in lively verse and featuring dynamic retro artwork. Rows of grooves, cables, and bars. Graffiti rockin’ out the cars. A badge of rust. A proud oil stain. There’s nothin’ plain about a train. Trains of all shapes and sizes are coming down the track — bullet train, sleeper train, underground train, zoo train, and more. All aboard! Skila Brown’s first-class poems, as varied as the trains themselves, reflect the excitement of train travel, while Jamey Christoph’s vintage-style illustrations provide a wealth of authentic detail to pore over.

They Call Me George
They Call Me George

Author: Cecil Foster

Publisher: Biblioasis

Published: 2019-02-05

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1771962623

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A CBC BOOKS MUST-READ NONFICTION BOOK FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH Nominated for the Toronto Book Award Smartly dressed and smiling, Canada’s black train porters were a familiar sight to the average passenger—yet their minority status rendered them politically invisible, second-class in the social imagination that determined who was and who was not considered Canadian. Subjected to grueling shifts and unreasonable standards—a passenger missing his stop was a dismissible offense—the so-called Pullmen of the country’s rail lines were denied secure positions and prohibited from bringing their families to Canada, and it was their struggle against the racist Dominion that laid the groundwork for the multicultural nation we know today. Drawing on the experiences of these influential black Canadians, Cecil Foster’s They Call Me George demonstrates the power of individuals and minority groups in the fight for social justice and shows how a country can change for the better.

Canadian Railroad Trilogy
Canadian Railroad Trilogy

Author: Gordon Lightfoot

Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd

Published: 2010-09-18

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 1554983045

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Nominee for the 2012 Silver Birch Express Award in the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading Program This lavishly illustrated book brings Gordon Lightfoot's heart-stirring song, "Canadian Railroad Trilogy," to readers young and old. The song was commissioned by the CBC in 1967 to mark Canada's centennial year and it has been a classic ever since. It eloquently describes the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway -- "an iron road runnin' from the sea to the sea" -- a great feat of nation building that changed Canada forever for good and for ill, as in the process many people died and were dispossessed of their land. Highly acclaimed, award-winning illustrator Ian Wallace brings the song to visual life with his sweeping landscapes and evocative portrayals of the people who lived the building of the railroad -- from the financiers in the east to First Nations people across the country to the thousands of navvies themselves, many of whom came from as far away as China.

East and West
East and West

Author: Laura Ritland

Publisher: Signal Editions

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781550654967

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East and West, Laura Ritland's astonishing debut, is a book of visions. These are roving poems drawn to defamiliarizing points of view, and are exquisitely attentive to the way the world exceeds our senses ("Cloud deduced cloud / after cloud and cloud.") Beckoningly tender, lucid and intelligent, elegaic without being maudlin, East and West explores what Ritland calls the "middle ground" of childhood, family, diaspora, and migration, and how new cultural ideas can disrupt traditional perspectives. "My bedroom window an escape hatch / to endless sights of coastal stars." Ritland takes the measure of herself-- "I'm an integer of my own society"--in one of the most distinctive and beautifully turned styles in Canadian poetry.

New and Selected Poems
New and Selected Poems

Author: Raymond Filip

Publisher: Guernica Editions

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9781550711288

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At the age of eighteen, Raymond Filip wrote 'I am a citizen of the world in exile'. Thirty years later, Filip's ethno-eccentric vision has remained prescient and true. Born in a displaced persons camp after World War II, Lithuanian by blood, Canadian by citizenship, a Quebecker by homing instinct, and Asian by marriage to a Filipina: three continents populate Filip's voice.

Native Poetry in Canada
Native Poetry in Canada

Author: Jeannette Armstrong

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2001-08-21

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1551112000

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Native Poetry in Canada: A Contemporary Anthology is the only collection of its kind. It brings together the poetry of many authors whose work has not previously been published in book form alongside that of critically-acclaimed poets, thus offering a record of Native cultural revival as it emerged through poetry from the 1960s to the present. The poets included here adapt English oratory and, above all, a sense of play. Native Poetry in Canada suggests both a history of struggle to be heard and the wealth of Native cultures in Canada today.

Memories of the Moonlight Special and Grand Beach Train Era
Memories of the Moonlight Special and Grand Beach Train Era

Author: Barbara Lange

Publisher: Borealis Press

Published: 2023-10-07

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 088887703X

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People remembered the boardwalk, concessions, the Moonlight Inn, picnics, the carousel, the dancing pavilion, Daddy Trains, beach romances, Hot Lips ginger beer, bands, Morse code, ice boxes, honey pot toilets, red boards, the wye, fishflies, bittersweet vine, the Snowshoe Special, and a bygone era when passengers felt part of one big family.From the deep, dank bowels of a century-old railway station, a roll of unused tickets surfaced for Canadian National Railway´s Victoria Beach Subdivision line. Sixty years after train service to the east shores of Lake Winnipeg ceased, a writer embarked on a journey of discovery. Creepy crawls through cemeteries, walks on wooden trestles, and strolls through Manitoba´s cottage country revealed a transplanted station, a time capsule, and the design plans for the beloved Grand Beach carouse

Kaifaqu, I Love You: A Canadian Poet In China
Kaifaqu, I Love You: A Canadian Poet In China

Author: Martin Avery

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-02-18

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 1329913299

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Kaifaqu, I Love You: A Canadian Poet In China, by Martin Avery, is a collection of poems about love and enlightenment set in a city of seven million between the Black Mountains and the Yellow Sea, called Dalian, in a special part of the city that has an urban core like Manhattan with a mountain backdrop called Daheishan or Big Monk Mountain.

Words We Call Home
Words We Call Home

Author: Linda Svendsen

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 0774844698

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Words We Call Home is a commemorative anthology celebrating more than twenty-five years of achievement for the UBC Creative Writing department -- the oldest writing program in Canada. The more than sixty poets, dramatists, and fiction writers included provide just a sample of the energy and vision the department has fostered over the years. From Earle Birney's pioneering efforts in 1946, to the birth of the department in 1965, to the present day, the programme has created a place for aspiring, talented writers.