Flicker (Paperback)

Rob Budde

ISBN 10: 1897109059 / ISBN 13: 9781897109052

Published by Signature Editions, 2005

About this Item

Paperback. Call it what you will -- the short-short story, the prose poem, micro-fiction -- accomplished poet, anthologist and novelist Rob Budde uses the form to convey glimpses of narrative and character, or story, through the intense personal imagery of poetry.Flicker is made up of short prose pieces, many with the emotional intensity of lyric poems. While a narrative arc penetrates the pieces and binds many of them together, the tightly constructed language and profoundly personal imagery tell another story, the emotional heartbeat that lives beneath language. A young man's summer in the bush becomes a dark, frightening and mysterious meditation on the meaning of wood. The old man for whom he works is seen through the narrator's eyes becoming a gnarled relic of the forest, the tree as human. These stories of youth and experience lure the reader in through plot and characterization using the subjective immediacy of poetry. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flicker (Paperback)
• Publisher: Signature Editions
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1897109059
• ISBN 13: 9781897109052
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

Call it what you will -- the short-short story, the prose poem, micro-fiction -- accomplished poet, anthologist and novelist Rob Budde uses the form to convey glimpses of narrative and character, or story, through the intense personal imagery of poetry.

Flicker is made up of short prose pieces, many with the emotional intensity of lyric poems. While a narrative arc penetrates the pieces and binds many of them together, the tightly constructed language and profoundly personal imagery tell another story, the emotional heartbeat that lives beneath language. A young man's summer in the bush becomes a dark, frightening and mysterious meditation on the meaning of wood. The old man for whom he works is seen through the narrator's eyes becoming a gnarled relic of the forest, the tree as human. These stories of youth and experience lure the reader in through plot and characterization using the subjective immediacy of poetry.

About the Author

Rob Budde teaches Creative Writing and Critical Theory at the University of Northern BC and has taught previously at the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba. He is the author of four previous books -- Catch as Catch, traffick, Misshapen, and The Dying Poem -- as well as the editor of the interview collection In Muddy Water: Conversations with 11 Poets. He has been a finalist for the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer and the McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year. He lives with his family in Prince George, BC.