Guthrie Clothing : The Poetry of Phil Hall, a Selected Collage Paperback / softback
by Phil Hall
Paperback / softback
Description
Increasingly known as the "poet's poet," Governor General's Awardawinner 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 materials pulled apart and rearranged.
This volume is not so much a "selected poems" as it is a reshuffle, a sampler from the span of Hall's published work.
Guthrie Clothing is a collage-selection by Hall. Lines, stanzas, and poem-fragments are reworked and patterned into a new sequence, a fresh structure.
The afterword consists of an important new essay-poem by Hall as well.
It argues against irony from a rural perspective and amounts to Hall's ars poetica.
In an encompassing introduction, rob mclennan explores Hall's four-plus decades of bricolage.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:86 pages
- Publisher:Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Publication Date:23/07/2015
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- ISBN:9781771121910
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:86 pages
- Publisher:Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Publication Date:23/07/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781771121910
