
- 112 pages
- English
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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
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- On Tour
- Afterthought 1
- Pirate Story
- Afterthought 2
- Comic Book
- Ancestors 1: On Standing Upright
- A Plain Lie 1
- A Plain Lie 2
- Emily Carr as Totem
- Keyed In
- Fable
- Ancestors 2: Hoofing It
- Classical Mythology
- Rendezvous
- Wild Turkeys
- Game Theory
- Taste
- Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina
- Mirror
- For Kristian, for Assurances
- Muse Report
- Trade Off
- Sage Hill Writers at St. Michaelâs Retreat, Saskatchewan
- Sharing a Pizza
- Cheticamp, Cape Breton Island
- Guesswork
- Just Be Yourself 1
- Just Be Yourself 2
- Touch
- Winter Parka
- Appalachian Back Roads
- Hot Fudge Sundae
- Making Faces
- Driving to the Airport at Five AM
- Just for Once
- Please Post
- Arctic Miracle
- Night Vision
- To Eli Mandel
- CJCA, Alberta, 1935
- Horseâs Petunia
- Pembina Highway, Winnipeg
- Dear Mark Twainâ
- Flooding the Rink
- If I Were You
- Nation in Peril
- Freedom of Choice: Pie Shop
- Anne of Green Gables, Found Poem
- Wind Chill Factor
- About the Author
- Goose Air Base, USAF
- I Swear I Didnât Do It
- Bad Timing
- Country Boy
- Walking Backwards in a Blizzard
- I Saw It With My Own Eyes
- The Word Sprang to My Lips
- Visit to Japan
- Cottage Season
- âno ideas but in thingsâ
- Seduction Attempt 1
- Seduction Attempt 2
- Applause
- Pessoa and His Heteronyms
- Cars Whizzing By
- Henri Rousseau, âThe Sleeping Gypsyâ
- Terracotta Army
- Laundering the Poem
- Dear Lovelorn,
- Horoscope
- Café au Lait and Croissants in Strasbourg
- Daedalus
- The Feet of the Lone Traveller
- Living Life as a Poet
- Donât Blame Us
- Victorian Lit, University of Alberta, 1946
- I Try to Steal My Identity
- Playing Cards With My Sisters
- Nature Buff
- My Windshield Scraper
- Locating Story
- Late Breaking News
- Making an Impression
- Cockadoodledoo
- Watching for Signs
- About Poetic Despair
- About Poetic Hope
- Grade Ten Typing Lesson: how now brown cow
- The Sky is Falling
- Everything Considered
- Time to Spare
- The Unnameable
- Motion Sickness
- Noosa Heads, Queensland
- Risking It