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Since 1966, bpNichol, the poet of the major Canadian long poem, The Martyrology, has been fervently questing for the answer to an essential problem for humanity: "How do you grow a human soul'?"This is a major focus of the structure of Book 6 Books and of the entire Martyrology--the uncovering and nurturing of that essential being in the bone-house.The poet's ardent desire to reunite body with soul, to connect self with others and with otherness in the world, is the driving force behind all his questionings and deconstructing techniques.It is Nichol's sincere empathy with other humans that makes him want to reach out to others, to find some connection with the sacred (which he finds in the act of writing), and to connect with what he has referred to as a "god-energy."For bpNichol, the act of writing is a form of prayer; the poet's holy beads are individual letters of the alphabet.Whereas the lyric voice attempts to will the presence of the god-energy, this poet allows the language to l
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Since 1966, bpNichol, the poet of the major Canadian long poem, The Martyrology, has been fervently questing for the answer to an essential problem for humanity: "How do you grow a human soul'?"This is a major focus of the structure of Book 6 Books and of the entire Martyrology--the uncovering and nurturing of that essential being in the bone-house.The poet's ardent desire to reunite body with soul, to connect self with others and with otherness in the world, is the driving force behind all his questionings and deconstructing techniques.It is Nichol's sincere empathy with other humans that makes him want to reach out to others, to find some connection with the sacred (which he finds in the act of writing), and to connect with what he has referred to as a "god-energy."For bpNichol, the act of writing is a form of prayer; the poet's holy beads are individual letters of the alphabet.Whereas the lyric voice attempts to will the presence of the god-energy, this poet allows the language to l
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