Research Catalog

Title

Guthrie clothing : the poetry of Phil Hall, a selected collage / Phil Hall ; with an introduction by rob mclennan.

Author

Hall, Phil, 1953-

Publication

Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015.

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Additional Authors

McLennan, Rob

Description

70 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"Increasingly known as the "poet's poet," Governor General's Award winner Phil Hall has long been a constructor of intricate sequences, collecting and arranging lines and phrases, artifacts, and small revelations. He writes on influences, literary and local; he writes of rural Ontario, attempting to comprehend a deeply personal family violence; he stitches together lines and tall tales and fables from his life and the stories that float around the ethos of his variety of Ontario wilds. Hall's isn't a poetry carved into perfect diamond form, but a poetry whittled from scores of found material to be pulled apart and rearranged. This volume is not so much a "selected poems" as it is a re-shuffle, a sampler, from the span of Hall's published work. Guthrie Clothing: The Poetry of Phil Hall, A Selected Collage is a collage-selection by the author of previously published lines, stanzas, and poem-fragments reworked and pared down, patterned together into a new structure. An important new essay-poem by Hall appears at the end. In an encompassing introduction, rob mclennan explores Hall's four-plus decades of bricolage."--

Series Statement

Laurier poetry series

Uniform Title

• Poems. Selections
• Project Muse UPCC books
• Laurier poetry series.

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

Canadian poetry

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry
• Poésie.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781771121910 (paperback)
• 1771121912 (paperback)

OCLC

910393652

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library