ISBN: 9780889842632

`Everything from her mouth / I wrote down in a blue book.'' So begins Hot Poppies, a collection of poems by Leon Rooke, that grand master of the vocal jag and lyrical roar. Thos… More...

`Everything from her mouth / I wrote down in a blue book.'' So begins Hot Poppies, a collection of poems by Leon Rooke, that grand master of the vocal jag and lyrical roar. Those who know Rooke''s fiction -- the Governor General''s award-winning novel Shakespeare''s Dog, for example -- will expect his first published poems to be rife with surreal flourishes, blazing language, sex, death, dogs and justice. All of these things are to be found in this blue book. So are Jasper Johns, (Lord) B, Princess Di, Lassie, Mahalia Jackson and John Cage. Hot Poppies is a riotous, extravagant book, fresh from the hot-house, but it is also seductive and subversive. Five-line love lyrics, full of epigrammatic spark, intersperse vitriolic satires on American electoral antics. Britney Spears goes to war with the squirrels, `hefty as flying raccoons,'' and James Tate''s condemned man talks hurricanes and death row dinners with his warden. Rooke writes poetry with the glitter-seeking eye of a magpie, discovering unsettling beauties in his hoard of cultural detritus and post-millennial dread. Leon Rooke, Books, Fiction and Literature, Hot Poppies Books>Fiction and Literature, Porcupine's Quill<

2005, ISBN: 0889842639

Paperback

[EAN: 9780889842632], Libro nuovo, [SC: 10.02], [PU: Erin, Ontario, Canada: Porcupines Quill], THE PORCUPINE'S QUILL, LEON ROOKE, CANADIAN POETRY, Poetry|Canadian, Poetry|General, Origina… More...

[EAN: 9780889842632], Libro nuovo, [SC: 10.02], [PU: Erin, Ontario, Canada: Porcupines Quill], THE PORCUPINE'S QUILL, LEON ROOKE, CANADIAN POETRY, Poetry|Canadian, Poetry|General, Original printed wraps. 96 pp. Octavo. Hot Poppies is a riotous, extravagant book, fresh from the hot-house, but it is also seductive and subversive. Five-line love lyrics, full of epigrammatic spark, intersperse vitriolic satires on American electoral antics. Britney Spears goes to war with the squirrels, `hefty as flying raccoons,' and James Tate's condemned man talks hurricanes and th row dinners with his warden. Rooke writes poetry with the glitter-seeking eye of a magpie, discovering unsettling beauties in his hoard of cultural detritus and post-millennial dread. Printed offset by Tim Inkster on the Heidelberg KORD at the printing office of the Porcupine's Quill in the Village of Erin, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. Smyth sewn into 16-page signatures, with hand-tipped endleaves, front and back.<

2005, ISBN: 0889842639

Paperback

[EAN: 9780889842632], Neubuch, [PU: Erin, Ontario, Canada: Porcupines Quill], THE PORCUPINE'S QUILL, LEON ROOKE, CANADIAN POETRY, Poetry|Canadian, Original printed wraps. 96 pp. Octavo. H… More...

[EAN: 9780889842632], Neubuch, [PU: Erin, Ontario, Canada: Porcupines Quill], THE PORCUPINE'S QUILL, LEON ROOKE, CANADIAN POETRY, Poetry|Canadian, Original printed wraps. 96 pp. Octavo. Hot Poppies is a riotous, extravagant book, fresh from the hot-house, but it is also seductive and subversive. Five-line love lyrics, full of epigrammatic spark, intersperse vitriolic satires on American electoral antics. Britney Spears goes to war with the squirrels, `hefty as flying raccoons,' and James Tate's condemned man talks hurricanes and th row dinners with his warden. Rooke writes poetry with the glitter-seeking eye of a magpie, discovering unsettling beauties in his hoard of cultural detritus and post-millennial dread. Printed offset by Tim Inkster on the Heidelberg KORD at the printing office of the Porcupine's Quill in the Village of Erin, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. Smyth sewn into 16-page signatures, with hand-tipped endleaves, front and back.<

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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: PORCUPINES QUILL, 96 Seiten, L=224mm, B=168mm, H=10mm, Gew.=181gr, [GR: 21500 - TB/Belletristik/Lyrik/Dramatik/Essays], [SW: - P… More...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: PORCUPINES QUILL, 96 Seiten, L=224mm, B=168mm, H=10mm, Gew.=181gr, [GR: 21500 - TB/Belletristik/Lyrik/Dramatik/Essays], [SW: - Poetry], Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: These unexpected poems, from fiction-master Leon Rooke, are full of swerves and rages, sudden stillnesses and the grit of real compassion. Their colloquialism rearranges your mind. Both love and anger have hope at their heart; among other things, these poems want to waken that hope.' Don't suspend disbelief. Don't arrest it, curtail it, or unfrock it. Disbelief is in the fine print scratched at the bottom of Leon Rooke's literary contract. ... If we relinquish anything to read Rooke, it should be sobriety.<

2005, ISBN: 9780889842632

Buch, Softcover, [PU: Porcupine's Quill Inc.,Canada], Porcupine's Quill Inc.,Canada, 2005