Jan Zwicky is a philosopher and poet. She has won the Governor General's Award for poetry, the Dorothy Livesay Award, and has been shortlisted for the Griffin Prize for Poetry. In 2004, Wisdom & Metaphor was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction.
[A] work of luminous intellectual and emotional intelligence. -
Green Letters
[Zwicky's] ambition is breathtaking; the aspiration is Rilkean: You
must change your life. - Common Knowledge
It's hard to believe, when printed books have been around for
almost six hundred years in the West, that someone could look at
their physical structure and construe its logic differently. But
that is what Zwicky has done.... In its simplicity, daring, and
elegance, Zwicky's innovation is a landmark achievement. - Dennis
Lee, "The Music of Thinking", in Lyric Ecology: An Appreciation of
the Work of Jan Zwicky
Jan Zwicky is a unique poet and philosopher, and Wisdom & Metaphor
is an important book. This work has much to offer not just poets
and philosophers, but anyone who has struggled with what it means
to understand something in the terms of something else. - Canadian
Literature
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