Guthrie Clothing: The Poetry of Phil Hall, a Selected Collage Contributor(s): Hall, Phil (Author), McLennan, Rob (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1771121912 ISBN-13: 9781771121910 Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Nature - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Places |
Dewey: 811 |
Series: Laurier Poetry |
Physical Information: 0.2" H x 6" W x 9" (0.30 lbs) 86 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hall, Phil: - Phil Hall won the 2011 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry in English and the 2012 Trillium Book Award for his book of essay-poems Killdeer. His most recent publications are The Small Nouns Crying Faith (2013), Notes from Gethsemani (2014), and Essay on Legend (2014). He lives near Perth, Ontario. McLennan, Rob: -rob mclennan is the author of nearly thirty books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, an editor and a publisher. His most recent include notes and dispatches: essays (2014), The Uncertainty Principle: stories (2014), and the poetry collection If suppose we are a fragment (2014). |