Bloody Jack
P>You are about to read a book like no other. Bloody Jack is a collection about the making and unmaking of story, of poetry and of history. Based loosely on the life of John Krafchenko, a notorious Manitoban outlaw, the poems of Bloody Jack turn fact and fiction upside down and inside out. Dennis Cooley has added more than a dozen new poems to this revised edition and Douglas Barbour has written an introduction. By turns earthy and earnest, soulful...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0888010915
ISBN13:9780888010919
Release Date:January 1984
Publisher:Turnstone Press
Length:237 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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Ranging the gamut from love lyrics to a "murder whodunit"
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Bloody Jack is a collection of free-verse poetry by Canadian poet Dennis Cooley and is loosely based upon the life of John Krafchenko, a notorious Manitoban outlaw. Ranging the gamut from love lyrics, to a "murder whodunit", to philosophical conundrums, to the humdrum daily life, the unusual spacing of lines adds a distinctive flavor to the evocative and captivating verses. "in spring sky is sprung / opens like a mousetrap / there is a wind so grey and so hard it is aluminum / so cold if you stand too close it explodes in small bottles"
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