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Author Kroetsch, Robert, 1927-2011, author.

Title Post-glacial : the selected poetry of Robert Kroetsch / selected with an introduction by David Eso and an afterword by Aritha van Herk.

Publication Info. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2019.
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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Laurier poetry series
Laurier poetry series.
Contents Machine generated contents note: Pirate Story -- Having a Word with Columbus -- There is a World -- Tourist from Toronto -- Are we there yet? -- As the flowers see them -- Stone Hammer Poem -- Taste -- Projected Visit -- Spring Harvest -- Lonesome Writer Diptych -- Sydney -- Wellington, New Zealand -- Delphi Commentary -- Keyed In -- Sketches of a Lemon -- It is a matter of winter -- Lost Narrative of Mrs. David Thompson -- Ten Simple Questions for David Thompson -- Late April? 1991 -- April 29 -- May 4, 1991 -- November 9, 1983 -- Nation in Peril -- Sub-text -- [Hornbook #99] -- [Hornbook #84] -- [Hornbook #61] -- [Hornbook #4] -- [Hornbook #44] -- [Hornbook for a young poet] -- [The inspiration hornbook] -- Man in the Moon -- I'm Getting Old Now -- Sounding the Name -- Sonnet #5.
Summary Post-glacial is a collection of poems by Robert Kroetsch selected by his former student David Eso. The book features Kroetsch's iconic collection, Completed Field Notes, alongside rare work gathered from different stages of Kroetsch's career. The book contains an afterword by Aritha van Herk. Kroetsch's poetry evolved from short lyric poetry in the 1960s to postmodern long poems in the 1970s and 80s. Kroetsch's work in the 1990s and 2000s was marked by the production of experimental chapbooks. Yet it is in the 2000s that Kroetsch's celebrated The Hornbooks of Rita K and his final collection, Too Bad, were published. Post-glacial presents the material in a thematic arc that follows daily, seasonal, and biographical topics. The collection moves from moods of morning, spring, and youth to shades of darkness, winter, and mourning. In the introduction, Eso charts Kroetsch's early attempts at poetry in his teenage and undergraduate years. Eso takes the title Post-glacial from the poem "Lonesome Writer Diptych" and proposes the term as an alternative to "postmodernism," a term often used by critics to describe Kroetsch's work. Post-glacial emphasizes the poet's interest in landscape, ecology, history, the presence of absence, and the endurance of a living past.
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Subject Canadian poetry.
Canadian poetry.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Poetry.
Poetry.
Added Author Eso, David, 1982- editor.
Van Herk, Aritha, 1954- writer of afterword.
Added Title Poems. Selections https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2019066550
Selected poetry of Robert Kroetsch
Other Form: Print version: 9781771124263 1771124261 (OCoLC)1125221949
Print version: Kroetsch, Robert, 1927-2011. Poems. Selections. Post-glacial. Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2019 1771124288 9781771124287 (OCoLC)1099798225
ISBN 9781771124270 (electronic book)
177112427X (electronic book)
9781771124263
1771124261