| Kurgan Contributor(s): Coles, Don (Author) |
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ISBN: 0889842116 ISBN-13: 9780889842113 Publisher: Porcupine's Quill OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2000 Annotation: Most of all, it is Coles's mastery of syntax, sinuous and unpredictable, that brings his poems alive. The trademark hesitations, asides and parentheses that mark his lines derive from speech (a Hemingway wife is one of the specialty, I am/going to risk saying, dishes in the big man's/moveable feast'') and are all measured out and weighed in beautifully constructed sentences. They reflect, I will risk saying, a radical skepticism: Nothing/here doubts itself, from which it follows/there is not a hint of me here, '' he tells us. This doubt, perhaps Coles's most modern trait, runs through and enriches all of "Kurgan" (as it did his great book-length poem "Little Bird") and places his poetry among the very best being written in English.' |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian |
| Dewey: 811 |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5.64" W x 8.72" (0.41 lbs) 112 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Kurgan is the work of a poet who has mastered the full range of his voice, ' commented Trillium English-language jurors Kim Echlin, Andrew Pyper and Michael Redhill. It is a collection that seems at times easily elegant in its language, but that at the same time plumbs the depths of human experience.' |
Contributor Bio(s): Coles, Don: - Don Coles was born April 12, 1927, in the town of Woodstock, Ontario. Coles entered Victoria College at the University of Toronto in 1945. He did a four-year history degree, then a two-year M.A. in English, spending two undergraduate summers in Trois-Pistoles, Quebec, learning French, and one summer travelling in Europe. He had several courses with Northrop Frye and Marshall McLuhan, whom he recalls as the best teachers of his life. In between the two M.A. years, he spent a year in Lon |