The World, I Guess by George Bowering

The World, I Guess

  • Poetry
  • 160 pages, 6×9 inches
  • Price: $18 CAD · $16 USD
  • ISBN: 9781554200962
  • Date published: 2015-05-14
  • Availability: in print & available

 

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About The World, I Guess

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 George Bowering'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.

About George Bowering

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 Governor General's Award for two different books, Mr. Bowering today lives quietly in Vancouver, where he continues to work as a writer.

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