Dying Poem - Couverture souple

Budde, Rob

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1552451089 ISBN 13 : 9781552451083

Editeur : Coach House Books, 1998

Synopsis

On the afternoon that two tonnes of explosives are set to dismember Toronto's Metropolitan Library, poet Henry Black hides himself away in his favourite wing; when his mangled body is uncovered, there's a book lodged in his chest. Jay Post, a hapless filmmaker, is hired to chronicle the life, death and writings of the poet. In the process of making his documentary, Jay must try to unravel the threads of Henry's labyrinthine, suicide-obsessed mind with only the poems as tools; he must also contend with two of Henry's sometimes lovers, Luisa, a Mexican violinist, and Dee, a feminist writer now living on a farm in the Annapolis Valley and writing a novel about Catherine the Great. The Dying Poem will take you through stories within stories in search of the mystery behind Henry's artful suicide. And, in the end, the crossing of paths and the difficulty of speaking about the dead tell us something about the making of art and what art makes of us.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rob Budde teaches creative writing at the University of Northern British Columbia. He has published three books: poetry collections Catch as Catch and traffick (both Turnstone Press, 1994, 1999) and the novel Misshapen (NeWest Press, 1997). He has been a finalist for the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer and the McNally-Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year. In 1995, Budde completed a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Calgary. He is the publisher of the online literary journal stonestone.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Coach House Books
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1552451089
• ISBN 13: 9781552451083
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 152
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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