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Too Bad: Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait (Currents)
Too Bad Sketches Toward a SelfPortrait - Currents Author:Robert Kroetsch Kroetsch has a way with words and with drama, so the reader will be interested in the world he creates. Humour, wit, and irony make these poems lively and a pleasure to read. Trees, comic books, and other parts of the poet's world allow him to tell stories with twists and turns, combining the history of German tribes and Native lands with the ta... more »king of a cup of tea. He considers tree rings, calendars, and other marks of time and timelessness as a measure of wisdom and narrative. Even Anne of Green Gables makes an appearance in these pages. From homesteading to computers, Kroetsch ranges through our times. The poet's life happens among games, art, landscapes, and much else. Here is a book of well-turned poems with the suggestive amplitude of a novel world.« less