{"product_id":"guthrie-clothing-the-poetry-of-phil-hall-a-selected-collage-paperback","title":"Guthrie Clothing: The Poetry of Phil Hall, a Selected Collage - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhil Hall\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRob McLennan\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncreasingly known as the \"poet's poet,\" Governor General's Award-winner 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. \u003ci\u003eGuthrie Clothing\u003c\/i\u003e is a collage-selection by Hall. Lines, stanzas, and poem-fragments are reworked and patterned into a new sequence, a fresh structure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 86\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 23, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42165922136199,"sku":"9781771121910","price":28.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/1e9221e110615ebd1f12013df47dcf76.webp?v=1733317252","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/guthrie-clothing-the-poetry-of-phil-hall-a-selected-collage-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}