{"product_id":"guthrie-clothing-phil-hall-9781771121910","title":"Guthrie Clothing: The Poetry of Phil Hall, a Selected Collage","description":"\u003cp\u003eIncreasingly known as the \"poet's poet,\" Governor General's Award-winner 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. Hall's isn't 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 \"selected poems\" as it is a reshuffle, a sampler from the span of Hall's published work. \u003ci\u003eGuthrie Clothing\u003c\/i\u003e is a collage-selection by Hall. Lines, stanzas, and poem-fragments are reworked and patterned into a new sequence, a fresh structure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe afterword consists of an important new essay-poem by Hall as well. It argues against irony from a rural perspective and amounts to Hall's ars poetica. In an encompassing introduction, rob mclennan explores Hall's four-plus decades of bricolage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Phil Hall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1771121912\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771121910\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wilfrid Laurier University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/23\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d","brand":"Phil Hall","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44125344497919,"sku":"9781771121910","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c551cfc9-fd96-424d-bca5-b22a695f802b.jpg?v=1687442084","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/guthrie-clothing-phil-hall-9781771121910","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}