{"product_id":"guthrie-clothing-the-poetry-of-phil-hall-a-selected-collage-9781771121910","title":"Guthrie Clothing: The Poetry of Phil Hall, a Selected Collage","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncreasingly known as the \"poet's poet,\" Governor General's Awardâwinner 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. Guthrie Clothing is a collage-selection by Hall. Lines, stanzas, and poem-fragments are reworked and patterned into a new sequence, a fresh structure. The 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.","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51863821386071,"sku":"9781771121910","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781771121910.jpg?v=1759921181","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/guthrie-clothing-the-poetry-of-phil-hall-a-selected-collage-9781771121910","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}