Prologue for the age of consequence / Garth Martens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martens, Garth, 1982- author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

109 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto, ON : Anansi, 2014.

Summary:

He tried to get it right, or at least tried to falsify rightness. Under the stippled ceiling within the drywall's whiteness. His boots gristing at a pebble he flushed each cabinet, bunted with a ball-peen, shimming to a hair's width. Garth Martens' debut, Prologue for the Age of Consequence, is about the tar sands and industrial projects of Alberta, and the men who work in them. But to describe it as such restricts the book to its physical concerns, when in fact these are poems of great philosophical ambition, and startling ethical and psychological reach. Martens has made an elemental world both beautiful and severe, and on his stage, characters assume a collective slat us both emphatically human and radically mythic. He is interested in endurance, in addiction, loss, abuse, and pain, in how people are created, and how they create themselves, out of crude material both inherited, and scavenged. His language is rough and baroque; his metaphors are titanic in their range and scope. This is a book about grace and error, about hurtling towards the unknown, about acting out. Martens writes: "If is dark when you reach the excavation and you don't know if the road starts or ends here. If it's abutment, chimera, hole." Prologue for the Age of Consequence accrues the propulsive force of an epic. It will pry you open, and reorder what it finds inside. Book jacket.

Contents:

Everything That's Yours 3

Inheritance 7

Inheritance II 9

Reclamation 11

Leathering 13

Contact 15

Ladybugs 17

From Cabin Hill 19

Drill / Screw 25

Johnny Lightning and the Safety Meeting 27

The Cleaning Girl 29

Winter Night 31

The Bug Unit 33

Storm 37

Entertainments 39

The Boss 41

Mythologies of Men 45

Johnny Lightning and the Apprentice 49

Effluvia 55

Dreamtime 57

Rote Welter 59

Demolition 61

The Bolt That Cracked 63

Jettisoned 69

Seizures 73

Tailings 83

In the North Country 85

Silhouettes 87

Johnny Lightning and the End of the World 89

Arial 93

Closure 99.

Notes:

Poems.

ISBN:

9781770893191

1770893199

9781770898103

1770898107

9781770893207

1770893202

OCLC:

878101966