All This Could Be Yours Contributor(s): Trotter, Joshua (Author) |
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ISBN: 1897231962 ISBN-13: 9781897231968 Publisher: Biblioasis OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - General |
Dewey: 811.6 |
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.1" W x 8.1" (0.25 lbs) 80 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: NATIONAL POST BEST POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR Like the promise of its title, All This Could Be Yours is full of elusive gifts. Joshua Trotter's debut collection is a metaphysical hall of windows that seem to be mirrors and mirrors presenting themselves as windows. Trotter's poems--which could be the bastard love-children of Stevens and Frost--refract, reflect and deflect with canny puns and rhymes, the rigour of their forms belying the rogue trickster twists of cockeyed logic they take and the po-faced near-sense in which they speak. Don't be fooled into thinking these poems glib: Trotter is often most serious precisely at his most blithe; his poems are always thought-full. Full of "intemperate winds / blown thinking from the ledge, through the gap // between the frame and what it haunts for us," they resist the intelligence, almost successfully, as Stevens said a poem should. |