The book of smaller / rob mclennan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McLennan, Rob, author.

Series:

Brave & brilliant series ; Number 25.

Brave & brilliant series ; Number 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (128 pages)

Place of Publication:

Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press, [2022]

Summary:

Written while at home full-time with two small children under five, the book of smaller is a collection of short, sharp, incredibly dense prose poems. Created in moments snatched from chaos, these poems challenge the possibilities of language in very small spaces. Each poem is a still moment, a memory, a burst of observation, suspended outside time and held up to the light as the world whirls around it. Some are intimate, some are public, all are grounded personal, domestic space. With trademark intelligence and daring, rob mclennan uses radical structures to express the concision and disorientation, jumps in sense and mood, the collapse of time and duration, the shattering joy and powerful fears, of full-person, full-time parenthood. With an unparalleled knowledge of modern poetry and poetic evolution, mclennan breaks the sentence into its most vital pieces, then breaks it further, smashes punctuation out of the expected into spaces of risk and uncertainty, pushing conventions to the edge and then beyond to challenge what writing is, and what a reader can be.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title Page

Full Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Beware the failure of imagination

My daughter is in New York City

Happy Holidays

Brockwell madrigal

Reading Ed Dorn in Vancouver

Three lines, overheard:

Forty-seventh birthday

It's still winter

History of the fissure

Remembering John Newlove

My 1980

Ars poetica

The book of smaller

Birth story

Fifty words for Gwendolyn

February

On minimalism

Snow Moon, 2017

Poem, with errors

The President's House is empty

Darwin's finches

Augustine of Hippo

Origin story

The Prime Minister's House is empty

Wing, an ideal place

Lament

Journal entry

Incremental

My 1975

Anne Carson, Short Talks

The Sainte-Adèle variations

Sentences my mother used

The untranslatable

Château Montebello

Postcard for Gil McElroy

Homestead

A child speaks to St. Augustine

Words borrowed from Nelson Ball

I live somewhere imaginary

Alta Vista story

Self-portrait, extant

Daylight savings

On the value of making

Map of the Niagara Frontier

Great Barrington MA

Japanese poetic diaries

The ends of language

Spring journal

Failed senryū

Jennifer Kronovet, translated

Letter

Study of a fox

Title poem

Study of an April rain

Breaking news

Portrait of a deer

Plenary, Robert Kroetsch

Sustenance

The ends of maternity leave

Mother tongue

Christine, in the Halifax airport

Study of a fragment.

The ends of the earth

Theory of Composition

Lorine Niedecker

The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize

Correspondence

The books you need in five years

C.D. Wright, ShallCross

Before description

Potsdamer Strasse

Once up a time, in Picton

A sketch of a sketch of the Ottawa River

Grasshopper Hill

Elegy for OC Transpo route #2

Christine, coastal

Elegy for Dave Russell

The Glengarry Highland Games

Policy.

2423 Alta Vista Drive

Where landscapes are preserved on canvas

A Confederate General in Charlottesville,Virginia

Solar Eclipse 2017

My father, at seventy-six

Emily Dickinson's hair

Deportations

My family's all in bed

Twenty-first century literature

Acknowledgments

Notes

About the Author

Series Page

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781773852621

1773852620

OCLC:

1285523995