The Book of Smaller - Couverture souple

Mclennan, Rob

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1773852612 ISBN 13 : 9781773852614

Editeur : University of Calgary Press, 2022

Synopsis

Written while at home full-time with two small children under five, the book of smaller is a collection of short, sharp, incredibly dense prose poems. Created in moments snatched from chaos, these poems challenge the possibilities of language in very small spaces.

Each poem is a still moment, a memory, a burst of observation, suspended outside time and held up to the light as the world whirls around it. Some are intimate, some are public, all are grounded personal, domestic space. With trademark intelligence and daring, rob mclennan uses radical structures to express the concision and disorientation, jumps in sense and mood, the collapse of time and duration, the shattering joy and powerful fears, of full-person, full-time parenthood.

With an unparalleled knowledge of modern poetry and poetic evolution, mclennan breaks the sentence into its most vital pieces, then breaks it further, smashes punctuation out of the expected into spaces of risk and uncertainty, pushing conventions to the edge and then beyond to challenge what writing is, and what a reader can be.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

rob mclennan lives in Ottawa, where he is home full-time with two wee girls. He is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. He is the winner of the John Newlove Poetry Award, the Ottawa Council for the Arts Mid-Career award, and was inducted into the VERSe Ottawa Hall of Honour in 2014.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Calgary Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1773852612
• ISBN 13: 9781773852614
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 126
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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