Description
Book SynopsisOld Hat is the third book of poetry and first collection of occasional poems by the author of the 2007 Globe 100 book, Muybridge''s Horse: Governor General and Trillium Awards nominee, Rob Winger. Driven by an attempt to understand how to reorder common experience, the book''s transitional sections - Set, Re/Set, and Lect - all intertwine and overlap, thematically and intuitively linked by the extensive range and depth of Winger''s poetics.
While each section is discrete, each is also in harmony with its neighbours. The Re/set sections revive clichés of Canadian lyricism--landscape and maple syrup, Icarus falling and human-rights rhetoric, war and ancestral migration, death, love, and disease--not only to critique but also to validate the experiential urgency of poetic reflection, while the Set sections harness Winger''s vernacular voice in a
struggle for self-definition against powerfully pedestrian political and economic systems. They signed Yu Darvish
