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Title: |
The Home Place |
| Sub-title: |
Essays on Robert Kroetsch's Poetry |
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| By (author): |
Dennis Cooley |
| ISBN10-13: |
1772121193 : 9781772121193 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
228x152x25mm |
| Pages: |
376 |
| Weight: |
.540 Kg. |
| Published: |
University of Alberta Press - March 2016 |
| List Price: |
42.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Subjects: |
Poetry : Poetry anthologies (various poets) : Anthologies (non-poetry) : Canada |
| "He wants to sit and visit at the kitchen table, and he can hardly wait to get on the road again." â From Chapter 1 Robert Kroetsch, one of Canada's most important writers, was a fierce regionalist with a porous yet resilient sense of "home." Although his criticism and fiction have received extensive attention, his poetry remains underexplored. This exuberantly polyvocal text, insightfully written by dennis cooleyâ who knew Kroetsch and worked with him for decadesâ seeks to correct that imbalance. The Home Place offers a dazzling, playful, and intellectually complex conversation drawing together personal recollections, Kroetsch's archival materials, and the international body of Kroetsch scholarship. For literary scholars and anyone who appreciates Canadian literature, The Home Place will represent the standard critical evaluation of Kroetsch's poetry for years to come. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Acknowledgements ONE Getting There / The Long Road Home TWO Or So It Has Been Alleged / The Ledger THREE Hearing Voices / Seed Catalogue FOUR What It Was / Seed Catalogue FIVE Its a Lovers Question / Staging Romance in The Sad Phoenician SIX Noted & Quoted / Kroetsch in Conversation and at the Podium Notes Bibliography Permissions Index |
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"Cooley makes important use of the evolution of some of the major poems by reference to the manuscripts and typescripts of drafts and makes an especially fruitful case for Seed Catalogue." Anne Burke, Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature August 30, 2016
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"Dennis Cooley has written a remarkable monograph on Robert Kroetsch that focuses primarily on a handful of his books of long poems. Cooley weaves an astute criticism of Kroetsch’s writing with details of Kroetsch’s private life, with an enquiry into being a writer, and with covering (and responding to) a great deal of previous Kroetsch scholarship....making for an acute study that covers an enormous critical range." Nicole Markotić, Prairie Fire, December 1, 2014
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"...[The Home Place] builds a magnificent bridge across the coulee between writer and reader... Comprehensive and intense, The Home Place unpacks Kroetsch's long poems The Ledger, Seed Catalogue and The Sad Phoenician. It dives into the very marrow of those works and accomplishes brilliant and suggestive explorations of the feints and allusions that make them great... Cooley and Kroetsch partner one another, dance with the words they both love and respect." Aritha van Herk, Alberta Views, November 2016
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"Cooley paints Kroetsch (1927–2011) as a Canadian Weldon Kees, as a man well known in certain circles as a celebrated writer, effuse in his friendships yet wandering much of his life and, like Odysseus, never quite sure of home.... Kroetsch had a passion for lists, for cataloging, his language catapulting emotion like the language of Gertrude Stein. One can read into his work the influence of Walt Whitman and Mark Twain, language without sentiment, crisp lines without meandering. Kroetsch’s language pulls readers into his world, where the heroes spend their time alone, repeating words, creating new meanings. Cooley’s collection reflects on the enigma of Kroetsch and the life of a poet in the 20th century. Recommended." K. Gale, Choice Magazine, February 2017
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"[Cooley's] critical approach rests somewhere in that con-fusion of poetry and criticism. Cooley reads with a scrupulous, tactful, alert sense of his own vocabulary, of his subject's languaging.... Just such a collision of verbs--rhyming and alliterating and doubling as nouns--typifies the irrepressible flurry of Kroetsch writing to Cooley writing to Kroetsch.... The poet-critic makes for good reading. His vocabulary provokes and amuses.... Lest this tribute imply The Home Place is all wordplay with poet playing poet, I want to recognize how adeptly, if obliquely and subtly, Cooley sets his subject in resonant contexts.... Reading The Home Place, we believe we know more about writer and writing--and about the home place." Canadian Literature 232 (Spring 2017) [Full review at https://canlit.ca/article/irrepressible] -- Laurence (Laurie) Ricou
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"Cooley reads with a scrupulous, tactful, alert sense of his own vocabulary, of his subjects languaging... [P]age after page I found Cooley riddling nuance and gap to surprise me with a meaning Id never contemplated, a measured un-meaning. He embraces Kroetschs 'grammatical twiddling' with affectionate care. He patiently engages Kroetschs lingo and its talky syntax... The poet-critic makes for good reading. His vocabulary provokes and amuses... Reading The Home Place, we believe we know more about writer and writing--and about the home place." [Full review at https://canlit.ca/article/irrepressible/] -- Laurie Ricou -- Canadian Literature, 20170315
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