{"product_id":"guthrie-clothing-book-phil-hall-9781771121910","title":"Guthrie Clothing","description":"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 materials pulled apart and rearranged. This volume is not so much a \"\"selected poems\"\" as it is a reshuffle, a sampler from the span of Hall's published work. Guthrie Clothing is a collage-selection by Hall. Lines, stanzas, and poem-fragments are reworked and patterned into a new sequence, a fresh structure.   The afterword consists of an important new essay-poem by Hall as well. It argues against irony from a rural perspective and amounts to Hall's ars poetica. In an encompassing introduction, rob mclennan explores Hall's four-plus decades of bricolage.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51306145972497,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51306147873041,"sku":"NIN9781771121910","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1771121912.jpg?v=1787836571","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/guthrie-clothing-book-phil-hall-9781771121910","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}