Post-Prairie: An Anthology of New Poetry

Jon Paul Fiorentino & Robert Kroetsch \(editors\)

ISBN 10: 0889225230 / ISBN 13: 9780889225237

Edité par Talonbooks, Vancouver, B. C,, 2005

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Vancouver, B. C,: Talonbooks, 2005. 158 pages. Contributors: derek beaulieu, Robert Budde, Louis Cabri, Jason Christie, Rosanna Deerchild, Adam Dickinson, Jon Paul Fiorentino, ryan fitzpatrick, Marvin Francis, Jill Hartman, Clive Holden, Catherin Hunter, Larissa Lai, Sylvia Legris, Nicole Markotic, Chandra Mayr, Mariianne Mays, Duncan Mercredi, John K. Samson, Ian Samuels, Natalie Simpson, Karen Solie, Andy Weaver, Darren Wershler-Henry. Entire book is in nice unmarked condition. Cover is bright and clean with tiny rubs to corners. No former owner's name. Very Good.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Post-Prairie: An Anthology of New Poetry
• Éditeur: Talonbooks, Vancouver, B. C,
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0889225230
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780889225237
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

"Prairie poetry," as it came to be known in the 20th century, has found no more eloquent and accomplished a practitioner than Robert Kroetsch. Yet the North American prairie his work has made so recognizably visible in all of its characteristic particularities is changing profoundly in the 21st century. This change is marked by the transition of a cultural identity primarily rooted in place, to one that is rooted in a rapidly fragmenting, urbanizing, technology-based globalization. In an opening dialogue between the archetypal practitioner of this poetics of place, Robert Kroetsch, and a new practitioner of a poetics of the search for the often sublimated sign, Jon Paul Fiorentino, the reader bears witness to a rare literary event--a master passing on his legacy to the students who have become his peers--the transition from the unifying classic articulation of place to the diaspora of the vernaculars it has engendered.

À propos des auteurs

Jon Paul Fiorentino is a writer and editor. His first novel is Stripmalling (ECW, 2009). His most recent book of poetry is The Theory of the Loser Class (Coach House Books, 2006). He is the author of the poetry book Hello Serotonin (Coach House Books, 2004) and the humour book Asthmatica (Insomniac Press, 2005). His most recent editorial projects are the anthologies Career Suicide! Contemporary Literary Humour (DC Books, 2003) and Post-Prairie – a collaborative effort with Robert Kroetsch, (Talonbooks, 2005). He lives in Montreal where he teaches writing at Concordia University and is the Editor of Matrix Magazine.

Robert Kroetsch was a Canadian novelist, poet, and non-fiction writer who was born in Heisler, Alberta, in 1927. He taught for many years at the University of Manitoba, and was also active in the Vancouver literary scene.

In his novel The Words of My Roaring (1966) he began to use the tall tale rhetoric of prairie taverns. Both The Studhorse Man (1969), which won the Governor General’s Award, and Gone Indian (1973) call the conventions of realistic fiction hilariously into question.

In 2004, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and in 2011 he received the Writers Guild of Alberta Golden Pen Award for Lifetime Achievement.