Certain Details : The Poetry of Nelson Ball / selected with an introduction by Stuart Ross and an afterword by Nelson Ball.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ball, Nelson, 1942-

Series:

Laurier poetry series.

Laurier poetry series

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (111 pages).

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Nelson Ball has had a significant impact on contemporary Canadian poetry not only as a poet but as an editor, with his Weed/Flower Press in the 1960s and 70s. Certain Details provides a major overview of the breadth and many paths of Ball's poetry over six decades. This selection of his work includes his trademark minimalist poems in addition to longer works and sequences; it spans nature poems, homages, meditations, narratives, found poems, and visual poems. The book contains selections from all of Ball's major collections as well as works that have previously appeared only in chapbook or ephemeral form. In a generous and thoughtful afterword, and for the first time in print, Ball discusses his processes, influences, and aesthetics. The book is introduced by editor and poet Stuart Ross, who offers a personal entry point into Nelson Ball's extraordinary oeuvre.

Contents:

Front Matter

Table of Contents

Foreword

Biographical Note

Several Points of Attention Regarding Nelson Ball

From With Issa: Poems 1964-1971 (1991)

From The Concrete Air [1971-1972] (1996)

From Bird Tracks on Hard Snow (1994)

From Almost Spring (1999)

From At the Edge of the Frog Pond (2004)

From In This Thin Rain (2012)

From Some Mornings (2014)

Uncollected Poems

Me and My Poetry: An Autobiographical Essay

Acknowledgements

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Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781771122740

1771122749

9781771122733

1771122730

OCLC:

956556418