Between two worlds: premises and promises -- Poets of the Prairie: enduring elements of Prairie landscape in Prairie poetry -- Parallax: race, gender, and location -- Paradox: ambivalence and ambiguity in poet/landscape relationships -- Beyond paradox: mystery and silence -- Public perception: the influence of literary and popular poetry
Summary
How does reading poetry influence the way we see the Prairies? Cultural geographer Carl J. Tracie explores this question in Shaping a World Already Made, his labour of love to Canadian poetry and to his home
