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First Edition stated on verso of title page; signed by Phil Hall along with an ink drawing of a kildeer bird on the title page with no inscription; slight curling to lower corners; otherwise a solid, clean copy in collectible condition.
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- Title
- Killdeer
- Author
- Hall, Phil
- Publisher
- BookThug, Toronto, Ont
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket as Issued
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1897388810
- ISBN 13
- 9781897388815
- Edition
- Canadian First.
WINNER OF THE 25th TRILLIUM BOOK PRIZE
WINNER OF AN ALCUIN AWARD FOR DESIGN
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE
These are poems of critical thought that have been influenced by old fiddle tunes. These are essays that are not out to persuade so much as ruminate, invite, accrue.
Hall is a surruralist (rural & surreal), and a terroir-ist (township-specific regionalist). He offers memories of, and homages to -- Margaret Laurence, Bronwen Wallace, Libby Scheier, and Daniel Jones, among others. He writes of the embarrassing process of becoming a poet, and of his push-pull relationship with the whole concept of home. His notorious 2004 chapbook essay The Bad Sequence is also included here, for a wider readership, at last. It has been revised. (It's teeth have been sharpened.)
In this book, the line is the unit of composition; the reading is wide; the perspective personal: each take a give, and logic a drawback.
Language is not a smart-aleck; it's a sacred tinkerer.
Readers are invited to watch awe become a we.
In Fred Wah's phrase, what is offered here is "the music at the heart of thinking."
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About the Author
PHIL HALL is a writer, editor, and teacher. His first book, Eighteen Poems, was published in 1973. Among his many published titles are: Old Enemy Juice; The Unsaid; Hearthedral-A Folk-Hermetic; An Oak Hunch; White Porcupine; Killdeer (winner of the 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, the 2012 Trillium Book Award, and shortlisted for the 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize); The Small Nouns Crying Faith; Guthrie Clothing: The Poetry of Phil Hall, a Selected Collage; and My Banjo and Tiny Drawings. Hall has taught writing at York University, Ryerson University, Seneca College, George Brown College, and elsewhere, and has held the position of Poetry Editor for Book*hug since 2013. Phil lives with his wife near Perth, Ontario.
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