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Increasingly known as the âpoetâs poet,â Governor Generalâs Awardâwinner Phil Hall has long been a constructor of intricate sequences, collecting and arranging lines and phrases, artifacts, and small revelations. He writes on influences, literary and local; he writes of rural Ontario, attempting to comprehend a deeply personal family violence; he stitches together lines and tall tales and fables from his life and the stories that float around the ethos of his variety of Ontario wilds. Hallâs isnât a poetry carved into perfect diamond form but a poetry whittled from scores of found materials pulled apart and rearranged. This volume is not so much a âselected poemsâ as it is a reshuffle, a sampler from the span of Hallâs published work. Guthrie Clothing is a collage-selection by Hall. Lines, stanzas, and poem-fragments are reworked and patterned into a new sequence, a fresh structure.
The afterword consists of an important new essay-poem by Hall as well. It argues against irony from a rural perspective and amounts to Hallâs ars poetica. In an encompassing introduction, rob mclennan explores Hallâs four-plus decades of bricolage.
About: Increasingly known as the âpoetâs poet,â Governor Generalâs Awardâwinner Phil Hall has long been a constructor of intricate sequences, collecting and arranging lines and phrases, artifacts, and small revelations.
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