Work to Be Done: Selected Essays and Reviews

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Essays and critical writing drawn from a wide-ranging fifty-year career in letters

Drawn from essays and reviews written over the course of nearly fifty years, Work to Be Done showcases both the depth and breadth of Bruce Whitemans critical work. An accomplished poet and critic whose essays and reviews are widely published in Canada, the work selected here demonstrates Whitemans capacious interests, which range from American poetry and European literary history to the work of writers as varied as Sappho, Goethe, and Philip Larkin.

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Praise for Bruce Whiteman

"Whiteman engages subject and readers with the phenomenology of existence--specifically, with landscape, music, and love . . . Arresting moments arrive frequently via imagery, then follow with insight . . . Whiteman is aware that the very nature of art is to elicit a reaction, and more importantly to have that reaction be expansive rather than diminishing."
--Quill & Quire

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Bruce Whiteman is a poet, essayist, and book reviewer. His most recent collection of poetry is The Invisible World Is in Decline, Book IX (ECW Press, 2022). His essays and reviews have appeared widely over the past forty years in journals and newspapers in both Canada and the United States. He has taught at several universities and was the poet in residence at Scattergood Friends School in Iowa for several years. Currently he teaches part-time in the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies. Bruce Whiteman lives in Peterborough, Ontario, with his cat, Virgil, a harpsichord, and a Steinway grand piano.