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The Dark Set: New Tenderman Poems - Softcover

Bowling, Tim

 
9781928088813: The Dark Set: New Tenderman Poems
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1928088813 ISBN 13: 9781928088813
Verlag: WOLSAK & WYNN PUBL, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

A tenderman is a crew member of a fishing vessel, a fisherman, someone who hauls live fish to the shore every day. In The Dark Set, the Tenderman is a character from another time, a worker in a lost resource culture, who is both a breathing artifact of a rough-edged, wilder past and a representative of uncomfortable human traits that rise out of ignorance and a failure of empathy. A fiercely independent everyman, the Tenderman is Bowling's way of wrestling with his own conflicted feelings about masculinity, history, citizenship and power. The division between the poet and the tenderman is wide, but he is a kind of shadow brother, a solitary visitor from a world North America repeatedly tries, and fails, to leave behind.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tim Bowling is the author of twenty books of poetry and prose. His work in poetry, fiction and non-fiction has earned him five Alberta Book Awards, two Canadian Authors Association Awards, an Acorn-Plantos Award for Peoples Poetry, two Governor General's Award nominations, two Writers' Trust of Canada Award nominations, a Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Like the tenderman of whom he writes, Bowling is marginally employed, without job security, benefits or a pension. He lives with his family in Edmonton.

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A tenderman is a crew member of a fishing vessel, someone constantly exposed to elemental forces. In The Dark Set, the tenderman is a character from another time – a worker from a lost resource culture, a fiercely independent Everyman. The poems in the collection are a conversation, set on the deck of a freighter in the mist, set in an emptied town, a give and take between the tenderman and the author. Here much of the modern world, with all its conundrums, is considered, and masculinity, history and power are cracked open. There is a wry acknowledgement of the layers of our culture that brightens this elegant collection, a sense of humour at the human plight that buoys you even as the colours of the coast dissolve into the colours of the sea.

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Verlag
WOLSAK & WYNN PUBL
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1928088813
ISBN 13 
9781928088813
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Anzahl der Seiten
72
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