Killdeer

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Publication Year:
2011

ISBN-13: 9781927040294

WINNER OF THE 75th GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRY<br>WINNER OF THE 25th TRILLIUM BOOK PRIZE<br>WINNER OF AN ALCUIN AWARD FOR DESIGN<br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE<br><br>These are poems of critical thought that have been influenced by old fiddle tunes. These are essays that are not out to persuade so much as ruminate, invite, accrue.<br><br>Hall is a surruralist (rural & surreal), and a terroir-ist (township-specific regionalist). He offers memories of, and homages to -- Margaret Laurence, Bronwen Wallace, Libby Scheier, and Daniel Jones, among others. He writes of the embarrassing process of becoming a poet, and of his push-pull relationship with the whole concept of home. His notorious 2004 chapbook essay The Bad Sequence is also included here, for a wider readership, at last. It has been revised. (It's teeth have been sharpened.)<br><br>In this book, the line is the unit of composition; the reading is wide; the perspective personal: each take a give, and logic a drawback.<br><br>Language is not a smart-aleck; it's a sacred tinkerer.<br>Readers are invited to watch awe become a we.<br><br>In Fred Wah's phrase, what is offered here is "the music at the heart of thinking."