Trouble Sleeping - Softcover

Hall, Phil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 189407811X ISBN 13: 9781894078115

Verlag: BRICK BOOKS, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Hall Phil

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Críticas:

"Trouble Sleeping is a tour de force... crafted and measured responses to the cruelty of daily life. The collection is marked by a restrained rage that threatens to erupt on every page."--Ruth Panofsky, Quill and Quire

"Like many novels, Hall's haibun happens as much in the interstices between pieces as it does in the writing itself. It requires a suspension of disbelief, a trust that the pieces will coalesce, and they do. The world portrayed in these poems--because even the 'prose' is really poetry--is harsh and beautiful."--Crystal Bacon, The Antigonish Review

"Hall is no stranger to the GG poetry category. He was nominated in 2000 for his book Trouble Sleeping...He's one of the most inventive, and least pretentious, poets we have. If he's not a household name yet, he should be."--Paul Vermeersch, The Globe and Mail

"Trouble Sleeping is a tour de force ... crafted and measured responses to the cruelty of daily life. The collection is marked by a restrained rage that threatens to erupt on every page."--Ruth Panofsky, Quill and Quire

"Like many novels, Hall's haibun happens as much in the interstices between pieces as it does in the writing itself. It requires a suspension of disbelief, a trust that the pieces will coalesce, and they do. The world portrayed in these poems -- because even the 'prose' is really poetry -- is harsh and beautiful."--Crystal Bacon, The Antigonish Review

"Hall is no stranger to the GG poetry category. He was nominated in 2000 for his book Trouble Sleeping ... He's one of the most inventive, and least pretentious, poets we have. If he's not a household name yet, he should be."--Paul Vermeersch, The Globe and Mail

Reseña del editor:

"If only my cousin had kept off me, kept out of me his brown fly-strop glue, his shot dog-eye cream. Afterwards, he would comb my hair to a wet Elvis point between my eyes and warn me what his wolves would do to me, and where I'd be sent, if I ever told."

This experience is at the core of Phil Hall's Trouble Sleeping. It is the source of bad dreams and also, paradoxically, the source of his crisp, luminous text. Trouble Sleeping makes visible the poetry of hopeful despair by remembering a poor working class family of Irish descent, living outside the margins of respectability at the edge of the Laurentian Shield in mid-Northern Ontario in the 1950s. This raw world is seen by a child who is a misfit in it (especially among its brutal, drunken males). That child will eventually come to speak for the plight of unregarded misfits in society at large. "Orthodontics is a class issue" to the writer looking back on a time when it never occurred to his parents that crooked teeth might be fixed - not that they could have afforded it. In Trouble Sleeping, working a variation on the Japanese form of haibun, Hall alternates prose passages with poems that reflect nightmarishly on the interwoven narratives.

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• Verlag: BRICK BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 189407811X
• ISBN 13: 9781894078115
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 77