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Karl Jirgens

January 29, 2015


Works by Karl Jirgens

Book ReviewsBook Reviews of Author

Book Reviews by Karl Jirgens

Remembrances of Things Past
By Karl Jirgens
Published in Mordecai Richler. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 207 (Winter 2010): 158-159.
  • Obituary of Light by Susan Musgrave
  • Too Bad by Robert Kroetsch
  • Memory's Daughter by Alice Major
Three Directions: One Terrain
By Karl Jirgens
Published in Disappearance and Mobility. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 201 (Summer 2009): 197-199.
  • Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets by Zachariah Wells (Editor)
  • Looking for Lucy by Wanda Campbell
  • South of North: Images of Canada by Richard Outram (Author), Anne Corkett (Editor), Rosemary Kilbourn (Editor) and Thoreau MacDonald (Illustrator)
Poetry
Two Takes, Different Worlds
By Karl Jirgens
Published in Canada and Its Discontents. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 198 (Autumn 2008): 114-115.
  • The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
  • Dead Man in the Orchestra Pit by Tom Osborne
Bissettiad
By Karl Jirgens
Published in Diasporic Women’s Writing. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 196 (Spring 2008): 120-121.
  • narrativ enigma / rumours uv hurricane by bill bissett
  • northern wild roses / deth interrupts th dansing by bill bissett
  • radiant danse uv being: a poetic portrait of bill bissett by Jeff Pew (Editor) and Stephen Roxborough (Editor)
Novel
Iron Keys
By Karl Jirgens
Published in Canada Reads. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 193 (Summer 2007): 156-157.
  • The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting by Darren Wershler-Henry
Poetry
The Poetics of Other Media
By Karl Jirgens
Published in Littérature francophone hors-Québec / Francophone Writing Outside Quebec. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 187 (Winter 2005): 136-137.
  • The Wardrobe Mistress by Beatriz Hausner
  • Trains of Winnipeg by Clive Holden
  • Smoke/Screen: Poems on Cigarettes and Movies by Don Kerr
  • Girls and Handsome Dogs by Norm Sibum
  • Crowd of Sounds by Adam Sol
Media & Communications
Two by Four
By Karl Jirgens
Published in Littérature francophone hors-Québec / Francophone Writing Outside Quebec. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 187 (Winter 2005): 108-109.
  • Ground Works: Avant-Garde for Thee by Christian Bök (Editor)
  • Exact Fare Only 2: Good Bad & Ugly Rides on Public Transit by Ian Cockfield (Editor)
  • Stevenson Under the Palm Trees by Alberto Manguel
  • With Borges by Alberto Manguel
Multimedia Poetry
Open Meditations
By Karl Jirgens
Published in Anne Carson. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 176 (Spring 2003): 195-196.
  • The Tapeworm Foundry by Darren Werschler-Henry
  • Burn by Paul Vermeersch
  • Chess Pieces by David Solway
  • Light-crossing by Michael Redhill
Anthologies Crime & Detective Travel Writing Twentieth Century

Book Reviews of Karl Jirgens's Works

Children of the Outer Darkness: The Poetry of Christopher Dewdney
By Christopher Dewdney and Karl Jirgens
Reviewed in Three Readers Writing by Adam Dickinson
A Measure of Time
By Karl Jirgens
Reviewed in Embracing Truths, Lies by Brett Josef Grubisic