Too Bad
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Too Bad

Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait

  1. 112 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Too Bad

Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait

About this book

A prodigious body of innovative writing behind him, Robert Kroetsch turns to a starker lyrical mode in Too Bad: Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait. Oscillating between the many moods of a human heart that has lived through so much-from whimsy and scorn through desire, longing, lust, love, and serenity-these sketches mark a candid walk through the tortuous corridors of the poet's remembering, and exemplify the rehearsed dictum of an old teacher: "Every enduring poem was written today." Simply put, "This book is not an autobiography. It is a gesture toward a self-portrait, which I take to be quite a different kettle of fish." -- Robert Kroetsch, from the Introduction

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. On Tour
  7. Afterthought 1
  8. Pirate Story
  9. Afterthought 2
  10. Comic Book
  11. Ancestors 1: On Standing Upright
  12. A Plain Lie 1
  13. A Plain Lie 2
  14. Emily Carr as Totem
  15. Keyed In
  16. Fable
  17. Ancestors 2: Hoofing It
  18. Classical Mythology
  19. Rendezvous
  20. Wild Turkeys
  21. Game Theory
  22. Taste
  23. Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina
  24. Mirror
  25. For Kristian, for Assurances
  26. Muse Report
  27. Trade Off
  28. Sage Hill Writers at St. Michael’s Retreat, Saskatchewan
  29. Sharing a Pizza
  30. Cheticamp, Cape Breton Island
  31. Guesswork
  32. Just Be Yourself 1
  33. Just Be Yourself 2
  34. Touch
  35. Winter Parka
  36. Appalachian Back Roads
  37. Hot Fudge Sundae
  38. Making Faces
  39. Driving to the Airport at Five AM
  40. Just for Once
  41. Please Post
  42. Arctic Miracle
  43. Night Vision
  44. To Eli Mandel
  45. CJCA, Alberta, 1935
  46. Horse’s Petunia
  47. Pembina Highway, Winnipeg
  48. Dear Mark Twain—
  49. Flooding the Rink
  50. If I Were You
  51. Nation in Peril
  52. Freedom of Choice: Pie Shop
  53. Anne of Green Gables, Found Poem
  54. Wind Chill Factor
  55. About the Author
  56. Goose Air Base, USAF
  57. I Swear I Didn’t Do It
  58. Bad Timing
  59. Country Boy
  60. Walking Backwards in a Blizzard
  61. I Saw It With My Own Eyes
  62. The Word Sprang to My Lips
  63. Visit to Japan
  64. Cottage Season
  65. “no ideas but in things”
  66. Seduction Attempt 1
  67. Seduction Attempt 2
  68. Applause
  69. Pessoa and His Heteronyms
  70. Cars Whizzing By
  71. Henri Rousseau, “The Sleeping Gypsy”
  72. Terracotta Army
  73. Laundering the Poem
  74. Dear Lovelorn,
  75. Horoscope
  76. Café au Lait and Croissants in Strasbourg
  77. Daedalus
  78. The Feet of the Lone Traveller
  79. Living Life as a Poet
  80. Don’t Blame Us
  81. Victorian Lit, University of Alberta, 1946
  82. I Try to Steal My Identity
  83. Playing Cards With My Sisters
  84. Nature Buff
  85. My Windshield Scraper
  86. Locating Story
  87. Late Breaking News
  88. Making an Impression
  89. Cockadoodledoo
  90. Watching for Signs
  91. About Poetic Despair
  92. About Poetic Hope
  93. Grade Ten Typing Lesson: how now brown cow
  94. The Sky is Falling
  95. Everything Considered
  96. Time to Spare
  97. The Unnameable
  98. Motion Sickness
  99. Noosa Heads, Queensland
  100. Risking It