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26%OFFRobert Kroetsch - Too Bad - 9780888645371 - V9780888645371
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Too Bad

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Description for Too Bad Paperback. A collection of poems with the suggestive amplitude of a novel world. Num Pages: 112 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 134 x 9. Weight in Grams: 166.
A prodigious body of innovative writing behind him, Robert Kroetsch turns to a starker lyrical mode in Too Bad: Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait. Oscillating between the many moods of a human heart that has lived through so much-from whimsy and scorn through desire, longing, lust, love, and serenity-these sketches mark a candid walk through the tortuous corridors of the poet's remembering, and exemplify the rehearsed dictum of an old teacher: "Every enduring poem was written today." Simply put, "This book is not an autobiography. It is a gesture toward a self-portrait, which I take to be quite a different kettle ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
Currents
Condition
New
Weight
166g
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
, Canada
ISBN
9780888645371
SKU
V9780888645371
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About Robert Kroetsch
Born in Heisler, Alberta, Robert Kroetsch published his first novel, But We are Exiles in 1965, and his book The Studhorse Man (1969) won the Governor General's Award for Fiction. Throughout his career, he steadily elaborated his indelible mark on Canadian writing with his fiction, non-fiction, poetry, teaching, and scholarship.

Reviews for Too Bad
"Recognizing that memory is fiction, Kroetsch tells a lot of tales, from childhood through adulthood...but the portrait that evolves is multiple, protean, impossible to pin down. The poems range from comic-philosophic meditations on writing through slightly satiric comments on our all-too-human behaviour to lovely, deliberately and intelligently nostalgic memories.... [Kroetsch] keeps writing new fictions of self, and offers his readers ... Read more

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