P. K. Page, in a career that has lasted for almost half a century, has shown herself a Protean writer, continually overstepping the boundaries of genre and category. She has written a romantic novel, ...
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In the excerpt below, American educator and Pulitzer Prize—winning poet Meredith favorably reviews As Ten, as Twenty, finding the volume a strong example of modern poetry.
Just where the new...
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Here, Page attributes her artistic growth to a number of elements, including where she has lived, her temporary inability to write poetry, and her subsequent interest in drawing. Critic Constance Rook...
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Smith was a Canadian educator, anthologist, award-winning poet, and critic. In the following essay, originally published in Canadian Literature in 1971, he examines the imagery and themes in Page...
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American educator Rooke contributed to and later edited the literary periodical The Malahat Review. In the following excerpt, she provides a survey of Page's verse and considers the influence o...
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Below, Mandel reviews Evening Dance of the Grey Flies. She comments that the "accomplishment of this fine book, much waited for, is that it makes such elegantly crafted artifacts beautiful to a...
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The following excerpt contains essays by three writers of differing schools of criticism—Freudian Kay Stockholder, poststructuralist/feminist Shirley Neuman, and historical/practical scholar D....
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In this review of The Glass Air: Selected Poems, Hutchison praises the book as a "valuable asset to both neophyte and scholar" and calls Page "one of our finest and most accomplis...
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Wachtel is a writer, editor, critic, and radio personality. In the following interview, Page discusses her early life, her poetry and prose, and various literary influences. She also describes her for...
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Critical Essay by John Sutherland
[Sun and Moon] bears a direct relation to Miss Page's writing in verse form, and is at once a counterpart and explanation of her poetry before she felt the in...
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Critical Essay by S. Namjoshi
The central tension in P. K. Page's poetry arises from the effort to mediate between the private world and the external one. It is possible to describe this tensi...
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Critical Essay by Rosemary Sullivan
A poet's identity may be found in the habits of feeling and insight that are particularly, almost obsessively, her own and which distinguish her poetry from...
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Critical Essay by Constance Rooke
"Arras" is masterful, an awesome visionary poem which has sometimes been misunderstood. Page contends here with giant forces, and she will triumph ...
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