 [ Large Image ] | Wisdom & Metaphor Jan Zwicky 2008 / Philosophy / $41.95 9781554470549 / Hardcover / 320 pp Edition is out of print This title is no longer available from Gaspereau Press. Please check with Brush Education Inc. A hardcover new-edition reprint of Zwicky’s GG-nominated book on the importance of metaphor to understanding. In the foreword to Wisdom & Metaphor, Jan Zwicky describes how “those who think metaphorically are enabled to think truly, because the shape of their thinking echoes the shape of the world.” Wisdom & Metaphor is a different kind of book, one that proceeds not by single pages but by ‘openings’. On the left-hand side are Zwicky’s own thoughts, which build throughout the course of the book, introducing the range of cultures and concepts that contribute to her thinking. On the right-hand side are selections from the work of fellow thinkers—poets, philosophers, mathematicians and essayists. Along the path of connections that features language, haiku, ontology, home, math, duende, time and music (to name but a few), Zwicky manages to clarify without simplifying, and to involve a broad range of voices without collapsing them into her own. The author’s roving influences, coupled with an understated, largely spatial, style of discourse, make this book truly thought provoking. As fellow poet and reviewer Anne Simpson says, “there is no doubt that what Zwicky has given us is a book of wisdom.” Replaces a previous edition: 9781554470549 | Other Books by this Author |  | Lyric Philosophy Jan Zwicky 2011 / Philosophy / $74.95 CAN 9781554470884 / Hardcover / 896 pp |  | Forge Jan Zwicky 2011 / Poetry / $19.95 CAN 9781554470976 / Trade paper / 80 pp |  | Plato as Artist Jan Zwicky 2009 / Philosophy / $25.95 CAN 9781554470754 / Trade paper / 112 pp |  | A Ragged Pen: Essays on Poetry & Memory Jan Zwicky, Robert Finley, Patrick Friesen, Aislinn Hunter, Anne Simpson 2006 / Essays / $22.95 CAN 9781554470303 / Trade paper / 96 pp |  | Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences Jan Zwicky 2005 / Poetry / $49.95 CAN 9781554470006 / Fine / 80 pp |  | Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences Jan Zwicky 2005 / Poetry / $18.95 CAN 9781554470013 / Trade paper / 80 pp |  | Wisdom & Metaphor Jan Zwicky 2003 / Philosophy / $69.95 CAN 9781894031813 / Fine / 288 pp |  | Wisdom & Metaphor Jan Zwicky 2003 / Philosophy / $31.95 CAN 9781894031783 / Trade paper / 288 pp |
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