Research Catalog
Check
- Title
- Check / Sarah Tolmie.
- Author
- Tolmie, Sarah
- Publication
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFC 21-194 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 114 pages; 20 cm.
- Summary
- "Hard-won freedoms of choice and association lead us to flock together in groups of the like-minded. Check is a book of contemporary poetic satire about the groups that we inevitably form and their consequences: in-groups and out-groups and mutual suspicion. When we look around at others, and talk about them amongst ourselves, we agree. Sarah Tolmie writes about parents and teenagers, social media users, different kinds of writers, university professors, feminists, celebrities, pundits - each one in possession of a different truth and determined to defend it. Hatred and intolerance are always the province of other people, never ourselves. Check begins and ends with the premise that toleration is exceedingly difficult and exasperating; it should not be casually assumed, and failures in it are universal. There has never been a tolerant society before, certainly not a global one."--
- Series Statement
- The Hugh MacLennan poetry series
- Uniform Title
- Hugh MacLennan poetry series.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- Note
- Poems.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Call Number
- JFC 21-194
- ISBN
- 9780228003632
- 0228003636
- OCLC
- 1141524198
- Author
- Tolmie, Sarah, author.
- Title
- Check / Sarah Tolmie.
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The Hugh MacLennan poetry seriesHugh MacLennan poetry series.
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Other Form:
- Online version: Tolmie, Sarah. Check. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020 0228005213 9780228005216 (OCoLC)1196339458
- Research Call Number
- JFC 21-194