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list price: $18.00
edition:Paperback
category: Poetry
published: May 2015
ISBN:9781554200962
publisher:
New Star Books
Description
The World, I Guess is a substantial book, six sections that demonstrate a command of a broad poetic range, a catholic range of interests, and echoes of a lifetime of reading and learning from Pound, Williams, Stanley, and others. The centrepiece is "The Flood," a long, complex, discursive poem whose subject is poesis and whose interest is in the world around the writer. But the book ends with a suite of translations of the "modern" Canadian poetry canon, from Charles G.D. Roberts and Archibald Lampman to Irving Layton and Phyllis Webb. While The World, I Guess might be just GB's 36th book of poetry, he's also issued a dozen or two novels and short story collections and another couple of dozen books of stuff he didn't make up: criticism, memoirs, and histories.
Contributor Notes
Canada's inaugural Poet-Laureate, winner of the British Columbia Lieutenant-Governor's Award for Literature, decorated Member of both the Orders of Canada and of British Columbia who once won a single GG for two different books, Mr. Bowering today lives quietly in Vancouver, where he continues to work as a writer.
