the bentleys (Currents (Inactive)) - Softcover

Cooley, Dennis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0888644701 ISBN 13: 9780888644701

Publisher: The University of Alberta Press, an imprint of University of Alberta Press, 2006

Synopsis

In the bentleys, Dennis Cooley, with his trademark energy and verve, has recreated the tensions and themes of Sinclair Ross's classic prairie novel As for Me and My House. Celebrating 'love in a dry land,' Cooley, with his deft, playful command of language, and his typographic exuberance, demonstrates his mastery of the long prairie poem. Containing some of the finest writing of his career, the bentleys will take its place with Bloody Jack as a 'beJesus delight.'

About this title

From the Back Cover:

all night long the terrible heat when the winds run low at last the silent screams we take to bed turn on our cavernous & windy heads on instruments waiting for music cataracts of blood going through the quick stir in wrists the rest of our bodies all the wrecked music there —from the bentleys In the bentleys, Dennis Cooley, with his trademark energy and verve, has recreated the tensions and themes of Sinclair Ross’s classic prairie novel As for Me and My House. Celebrating ‘love in a dry land,’ Cooley, with his deft, playful command of language, and his typographic exuberance, demonstrates his mastery of the long prairie poem. Containing some of the finest writing of his career, the bentleys will take its place with Bloody Jack as a ‘beJesus delight.’

About the Author:

Dennis Cooley lives in Winnipeg, where he is Professor of English at St. John's College, University of Manitoba.

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of Alberta Press, an imprint of University of Alberta Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0888644701
• ISBN 13: 9780888644701
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160