Phil Hall

Guthrie Clothing: The Poetry of Phil Hall, a Selected Collage - Laurier Poetry

Marc Notes: Increasingly 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 material to be pulled apart and rearranged. This volume is not so much a selected poems as it is a re-shuffle, a sampler, from the span of Hall's published work. Guthrie Clothing: The Poetry of Phil Hall, A Selected Collage is a collage-selection by the author of previously published lines, stanzas, and poem-fragments reworked and pared down, patterned together into a new structure. An important new essay-poem by Hall appears at the end. In an encompassing introduction, rob mclennan explores Hall's four-plus decades of bricolage.--; Provided by publisher.; Issued also in electronic format.

Contributor Bio:  Hall, Phil Phil Hall won the 2011 Governor General s Literary Award for Poetry in English and the 2012 Trillium Book Award for his book of essay-poems "Killdeer". His most recent publications are "The Small Nouns Crying Faith" (2013), "Notes from Gethsemani" (2014), and "Essay on Legend" (2014). He lives near Perth, Ontario. Contributor Bio:  McLennan, Rob rob mclennan is the author of nearly thirty books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, an editor and a publisher. His most recent include "notes and dispatches: essays" (2014), "The Uncertainty Principle: stories" (2014), and the poetry collection "If suppose we are a fragment" (2014).