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WHAT'S LEFT
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| By: |
Rob Mclennan |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0889224986 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780889224988 |
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| Publisher: |
TALON BOOKS,CANADA |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 2004 |
| Pages: |
144 |
| Description: |
Presents us with cues and clues to the poet's compositional strategies. |
| Synopsis: |
what's left, a book in six related sections, presents us with cues and clues to the poet's compositional strategies. The first section, ? hazelnut," measures time as the unfolding life of space. It alludes to mclennan's long-term genealogy project, in which he discovers traces of the Sumerian flood, Etruscans, Icelanders, and Robert the Bruce hidden in ? Indian Lands," waiting to be discovered like ? gilded coffins in Egypt, undisturbed, as yet," along with other ? ? ancient' remains, now ? decades-old,'" of our more recent, cash-crop culture. This hopeful search for a unified thread of narrative continuity in our shared physical landscape is undermined by the road-poems of the book's second section, ? interim report," where the poet finds himself ? somewhere between love and madness," only to discover in the third section that the pursuit of a collective historical voice might well be merely a search for a little white li(n)e.Section four, ? cooley's key," shifts the identity/narrative search from the ? other" to the ? self," with an ironic platonic toss of the active body in favour of its passive intentions: ? ? he says in the old days, eh, all / they cared abt was sex & grades, eh, but now / all they care abt is grades ? where / has the ambition gone." Section five, ? paisley," dead-ends in an artfully constructed fractal barrage of global nostalgia: a series of endlessly over- and under-stated images of idealized neighbourhoods where lawns are cut with mullets and relationships are cut into periodic tables by intrusive punctuation. Finally in section six, we find ? what's left: coda," a return to the particulars of the poet's ? territory": not a ? mighty oak from a tiny acorn grown," but a hazelnut thicket in which a multiplicity of voices is heard. |
| Publication: |
Canada |
| Imprint: |
Talon Books,Canada |
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