| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Laurier poetry series |
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Laurier poetry series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Table of Contents; Foreword; Biographical Note; Introduction; (bluegrass); (for Men Against Rape); When I went down to the shore at dawn; My father said; Though we all sink back together; The back townships acquiesce in the rain; (guide to executive suicide); A chickadee; I wanted to see a girl naked; (Bronwen Wallace); I worship our threatened complexity; I am too old & no longer believe; The tiny boat is slowing down; To free me of anecdote; I couldn't write a better poem; Spearing pineapple rings from a can with a stick; Where wings once caught poor sinners like us |
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Do not tell me what is great(April 1970); He was the skins of a few prides; There is a library of strangers in Dublin; First my first language nonsense; Where #7's survey tangent; If I have to hear one more time; Me & Morrisseau were both abused as kids; It is not you it is the door & then the phone; People are like pens; My just-washed hair loosening & lightening; Don't be discouraged by the prosaic origins of poems; What topsoil tells the hand the hand tells a pencil; Boats revere words; A woman takes off her bombshell; (James Reaney); To listen they lean forward kids do; (the alphabet) |
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(Praxia)A flower no I mean one who unplucked flows; For once for once upon for once open opening; To pace a pleasing moiety-line; The Philadelphia Wireman was probably a woman; A book in its folios is akin to firewood; Error is Character; Again each second the pulse; Light entered my black song; (bluegrass); I am roaming the streets; Afterword: "To See It All & Not Be Weary," Phil Hall; Acknowledgements |
| Summary |
"Increasingly known as the "poet's poet," Governor General's Award winner Phil Hall has long been a constructor of intricate sequences, collecting and arranging lines and phrases, artifacts, and small revelations. He writes on influences, literary and local; he writes of rural Ontario, attempting to comprehend a deeply personal family violence; he stitches together lines and tall tales and fables from his life and the stories that float around the ethos of his variety of Ontario wilds. Hall's isn't a poetry carved into perfect diamond form, but a poetry whittled from scores of found material to be pulled apart and rearranged. This volume is not so much a "selected poems" as it is a re-shuffle, a sampler, from the span of Hall's published work. Guthrie Clothing: The Poetry of Phil Hall, A Selected Collage is a collage-selection by the author of previously published lines, stanzas, and poem-fragments reworked and pared down, patterned together into a new structure. An important new essay-poem by Hall appears at the end. In an encompassing introduction, rob mclennan explores Hall's four-plus decades of bricolage."-- Provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Canadian poetry.
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FICTION -- General.
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Canadian poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McLennan, Rob, 1970- writer of introduction
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| ISBN |
9781771121934 |
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1771121939 |
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9781771121927 |
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1771121920 |
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