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From prolific Canadian writer George Bowering comesHorizontal Surfaces, the complete collection of long-form poetic criticism that extends his 2007 chapbook of the same name, and the latest addition to BookThug's Department of Critical Thought. Horizontal Surfacescame from the same atelier as earlier critical works,Craft Slices(1985) andErrata(1988). In it, Bowering offers philosophical musings on topics as wide-ranging as poetry's accessibility and what that means for baseball (a favourite topic for the author), the solidity of Ezra Pound's writing, and spirituality in the west. In some ways, readers may see this as a telling of Bowering's life to this point-a mid-life pseudo-memoir of sorts, after achieving critical acclaim as a novelist, poet, historian, Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate, judge of major literary competitions... But this work does so much more: expressing the value and validity of language; how words have been important to Bowering, as useful tools to exact meaning; and at the same time, calling into question the utility of poetry to truly represent those things that our senses perceive to be "real."

About the Author :
GEORGE BOWERINGis the author ofBaseball,a green diamond-shaped book of poetry edited by bpNichol and published by Coach House Press,Poem and other Baseballs,published in 1976, andBaseball Love, a memoir and travel journal published in 2006. His sequence of poems "Terrains de jeux" was part of a triptych entitledPoemeset autres baseballs, shared with David McFadden and Michel Albert and published in 1999 by Les Editions Triptyque.

Review :
“Bowering’s poetic meditations weave together literature and criticism without indulging in abstract language or academic jargon.”— Canadian Literature


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  • ISBN-13: 9781897388716
  • Publisher: Book*hug
  • Publisher Imprint: Book*hug
  • Height: 218 mm
  • No of Pages: 112
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 159 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1897388713
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
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  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 142 mm


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