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Plans Deranged by Time: The Poetry of George Fetherling
Paperback
Series: Laurier Poetry
Poetry CriticismGeneral Poetry
ISBN13: 9781554586318
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: Jan 1 2012
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
The Toronto Star called him a legendary figure in Canadian writing, and indeed George Fetherling has been prolific in many genres: poetry, history, travel narrative, memoir, and cultural studies. Plans Deranged by Time is a representative selection from many of the twelve poetry collections he has published since the late 1960s. Like his novels and other fiction, many of these poems are anchored in a sense of place--often a very urban one. Filled with aphorism and sharp observation, the poems are spare of line and metaphor; they display a kind of elegant realism: loading docks, back doors of restaurants, doughnut shops with karate schools upstairs.
Fetherling's afterword is an anecdote-anchored exploration of what the poet sees as his two central approaches--the desire to create new codes of hearing and writing-to-heal--and how they are reflected in the collection.
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