POIESIS IX, 2007, is now available!
Amor fati: that shall henceforth be my love! I do not want to wage war against the ugly. I do not want to accuse — I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Let looking away be my only denial! And all in all and on the whole: I want someday to be purely and simply a Yes-sayer! -Nietzsche
After several issues dedicated to trauma, suffering and terror, POIESIS takes up Nietzsche’s call for a “Yea-saying” philosophy of life. How can we find joy and enjoyment in everyday life and in the arts? Can we get beyond the media-driven conception of happiness as endless consumption and reclaim a non-ideological attitude of affirmation towards existence? What would this mean for the critique of ideology? What implications would it have for therapeutic and social change? What would be an aesthetics of praise?
We hope that readers will be willing to risk the foolishness of affirmative thinking in the face of all catastrophe and join us in saying, “Yea!”
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$29.95 Cdn
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ISBN 14924986
Song the Only Victory is now available!
Song the Only Victory: Poetry Against War
In Song the Only Victory: Poetry Against War, Stephen K. Levine gives poetic and prophetic voice to the power of language in the face of violence and death. These poems speak of war and witness; they urge us to listen and speak out ourselves. This is a book for all those who wish to go beyond mute outrage and to find their own out-spoken voices. To all those who despair of the impossibility of change, Levine counsels, “Sing on!”
Reviews of Song the Only Victory:
“Stephen K. Levine’s poems are poignant, aching, raging missives to a world in a time of violence. Confrontations with terror and beauty, these poems are counter-pointed by the haunting images of Ellen Levine’s beautiful multimedia artwork. Ultimately, within a historical context of senseless global warfare, Stephen K. Levine envisions the poem as human song, music that provides healing and victory. He is a witness of humane conscience, an authentic, passionate poetic voice.” -Rishma Dunlop
“Stephen K. Levine is that rare poet who engages the intellect and the spirit with equal skill. The poems in Song The Only Victory are masterful reminders of war’s inhumanity; they force the reader to peer through the smoke and rubble and ask, as do the black-clad women in his brilliant poem “Shalom/Salaam,” those fundamental questions: “How will you live your life? How will you find your way in the world?” -Charles Coe
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$16.95 Cdn
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ISBN 968533055
Who We Are
EGS Press is an independent publishing company located in Toronto, Canada. We have been in operation since 1998, when it became clear that the European Graduate School in Switzerland would benefit from a forum in which to publish material emerging from its work in the fields of media, the arts and therapy. EGS offers masters and doctoral degrees in Media and Communications, and in Expressive Arts: Therapy, Education, and Consulting. EGS Press aims to publish works of substantial quality in these and associated areas. In addition to books, EGS Press publishes a yearly journal, POIESIS: A Journal of the Arts and Communication, containing essays, poetry and works of visual art.
Our staff is small but dedicated. Stephen K. Levine acts as editor-in-chief, assisted by managing editor Shara Claire. Kristin Briggs, designer and production manager, was the one original EGS Press staff member at its inception in 1998.
