Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-348) and index.
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Getting there: the long road home -- Or so it has been alleged: the ledger -- Hearing voices: seed catalogue -- What it was: seed catalogue -- It's a lover's question: staging romance in The Sad Phoenician -- Noted and quoted: Kroetsch in conversation and at the podium -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Permissions -- Index.
Summary:
Robert Kroetsch, one of Canada's most important writers, was a fierce regionalist with a porous yet resilient sense of "home." Although his criticism and fiction have received extensive attention, his poetry remains underexplored. This exuberantly polyvocal text by dennis cooley - who knew Kroetsch and worked with him for decades - seeks to correct this imbalance. This work offers a dazzling, playful, and intellectually complex conversation that draws together personal recollections, Kroetsch's archival materials, and the international body of Kroetsch scholarship. For literary scholars and anyone who appreciates Canadian literature, The Home Place will represent the standard critical evaluation of Kroetsch's poetry for years to come.
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