The Bentleys - Brossura

Cooley, Dennis

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0888644701 ISBN 13: 9780888644701

Casa editrice: Univ Ff Alberta Pr, 2006

Riassunto

In the bentleys, Dennis Cooley, with his trademark energy and verve, has recreated the tensions and themes of Sinclair Ross's classic prairie novel As for Me and My House. Celebrating 'love in a dry land,' Cooley, with his deft, playful command of language, and his typographic exuberance, demonstrates his mastery of the long prairie poem. Containing some of the finest writing of his career, the bentleys will take its place with Bloody Jack as a 'beJesus delight.'

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Informazioni sugli autori

dennis cooley was born in Estevan, Saskatchewan. He later moved to Manitoba, where he helped to start the Manitoba Writers' Guild and was a founding member of Turnstone Press. He taught Canadian literature, poetry, creative writing, and literary theory at the University of Manitoba. He has published widely, including well over a dozen volumes of poetry, notably Bloody Jack (2002), and the bentleys (2006). A recipient of the Manitoba Writers' Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, dennis cooley lives in Winnipeg.

Dennis Cooley is Professor of English at St. John's College, University of Manitoba.

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all night long the terrible heat when the winds run low at last the silent screams we take to bed turn on our cavernous & windy heads on instruments waiting for music cataracts of blood going through the quick stir in wrists the rest of our bodies all the wrecked music there -from the bentleys In the bentleys, Dennis Cooley, with his trademark energy and verve, has recreated the tensions and themes of Sinclair Ross's classic prairie novel As for Me and My House. Celebrating 'love in a dry land,' Cooley, with his deft, playful command of language, and his typographic exuberance, demonstrates his mastery of the long prairie poem. Containing some of the finest writing of his career, the bentleys will take its place with Bloody Jack as a 'beJesus delight.'

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ Ff Alberta Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0888644701
• ISBN 13: 9780888644701
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 150
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile