The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther / / Christine Wiesenthal.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Wiesenthal, Christine,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Chronology --; Introduction: Toward a Half-Life of Pat Lowther --; PART I. The Craft of Memory --; Chapter 1. Three September Twenty-Threes --; Chapter 2. Not about Poetry --; Chapter 3. Canonicity and the 'Cult of the Victim' --; PART II. Complicated Airflows in the House --; Chapter 4. 'At, Rat, Cat, Sat, Pat' --; Chapter 5. 5823 St George Street --; Chapter 6. A Difficult Flowering --; Chapter 7. That 'Spinning Female Thing' --; Chapter 8. It Happens Every Day --; PART III. Ready to Learn Politics --; Chapter 9. The First 'Red Flag' --; Chapter 10. The Local Left --; Chapter 11. The Age of the Bird --; Chapter 12. Longitudes, North --; Chapter 13. Longitudes, South --; Chapter 14. Welcome to the League --; PART IV. Philosophy's First Molecule --; Chapter 15. Infinite Mirror Trips --; Chapter 16. The Land Is What's Left --; Chapter 17. 'History, and Context, and Continuity' --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Illustration Credits --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442681422; 9783110667691; 9783110490954
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442681422
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Christine Wiesenthal.

Since her untimely death in 1975, the life and work of the Vancouver poet Pat Lowther have often been referred to as 'the Lowther legacy.' In The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther, Christine Wiesenthal seeks to convey what that legacy actually entails.Combining biography with an analysis of literary and cultural history, Wiesenthal examines the critical legacy of a writer whose remarkable life and poetry have remained overshadowed by her notorious death. Working within a new form of biography, which employs multiple narrative arcs - or 'half-lives' - that interpret Lowther's life and poetry within and across several interpretive frameworks, Wiesenthal retraces the influences on the public memory of the poet. She charts Lowther's complex creative evolution: from her modest beginnings as a high-school drop out and single mother, to her emergence as one of the most distinctive poetic voices of the seventies. A wealth of previously uncollected and unpublished letters, notebook entries, court documents, interviews, and archival materials illuminate Pat Lowther's manifold achievements in her domestic, political, and intellectual lives. The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther is the premier work on this remarkable figure.