Anthology of poems by Jan Zwicky, with an introduction by Darren Bifford and Warren Heiti that situates Zwicky's poetry within her philosophical work. The afterword consists of an interview with the poet that expands on the themes of her poetry in a more personal way.

Jan Zwicky's books of poetry include Songs for Relinquishing the Earth, which won the Governor General's Award, Robinson's Crossing, which won the Dorothy Livesay Prize, and, most recently Forge, which was short-listed for the Griffin Prize. Her books of philosophy include Wisdom & Metaphor, Lyric Philosophy, and Alkibiades' Love (forthcoming 2015).

Table of Contents for
Chamber Music: The Poetry of Jan Zwicky, selected with an introduction by Darren Bifford and Warren Heiti

Foreword, Neil Besner

Biographical Note

Introduction

Practising Bach

Language Is Hands

from Leaving Home

from Seven Elegies: Robert William Zwicky (1927-1987)

The Horse Pull

Your Body

K. 219, Adagio

The Geology of Norway

Brahms' Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115

Cashion Bridge

Bill Evans: "Here's That Rainy Day"

Beethoven: Op. 95

Driving Northwest

Prairie

Epistemology

One Version

Robinson's Crossing

History

Another Version

Glenn Gould: Bach's "Italian" Concerto, BWV 971

Small song in praise of ears

Small song for the voice of the nuthatch

Small song: Prairie

Small song to oneself

Small song:Mozart

Small song: Laundry

from Music and Silence: Seven Variations

Late Schubert

Practising Bach

Gemini

If There Were Two Rivers

From Distant Lands

The Art of Fugue

Schumann: Fantasie, Op. 17

Autobiography

Autumn Again

An Abridgement of a Conversation with Jan Zwicky

Acknowledgements