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list price: $16.95
edition:Paperback
category: Poetry
published: Mar 2014
ISBN:9781927575451
publisher:
Caitlin Press
Description
The Dreamland Theatre exists in a photograph of a white building on sledges being pulled through the mud from one location to another by a team of horses in Prince George (then Fort George) circa 1912. These poems are about imagining place and, continuing the work of Finding Ft. George, Rob Budde's process of trying, and failing, to find out where he is. Poetry is part of a place, and this book deals in the powerful homemaking that is language itself.
Contributor Notes
Rob Budde teaches creative writing at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George. He has published eight books (poetry, novels, interviews, and short fiction) and appeared in numerous literary magazines including Canadian Literature, The Capilano Review, West Coast Line, Dusie, ditch, filling Station, Prairie Fire, Matrix, and dandelion. His most recent books are declining america and Dreamland Theatre from Caitlin Press, which was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. He co-edits Thimbleberry Magazine: Arts + Culture in Northern BC.
Awards
- Runner-up, Dorthy Livesay Poetry Prize
Editorial Review
"This is the kind of poetry that doesn't conform to urban forms, but instead talks about a different economy. Come and listen in as poet Robert Budde thoughtfully asks 'on what land am I standing.' Budde asks us to think of something new, and in poems after poem we realize his 'hut shaped ideas' are 'just around the bend' of what is, as he says, 'an inconclusive map' populated, everything being equal, not only with unregulated spaces, but friends' faces, as things go."
--Ken Belford, author of lan(d)guage
