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Record Nr.

UNINA9910158607503321

Autore

Ball Nelson <1942->

Titolo

Certain Details : The Poetry of Nelson Ball / / selected with an introduction by Stuart Ross and an afterword by Nelson Ball

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : , : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

9781771122740

1771122749

9781771122733

1771122730

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (111 pages)

Collana

Laurier poetry series

Disciplina

811.5408

Soggetti

American poetry - 20th century

POETRY / Canadian

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Biographical Note -- Several Points of Attention Regarding Nelson Ball -- From With Issa: Poems 1964-1971 (1991) -- From The Concrete Air [1971-1972] (1996) -- From Bird Tracks on Hard Snow (1994) -- From Almost Spring (1999) -- From At the Edge of the Frog Pond (2004) -- From In This Thin Rain (2012) -- From Some Mornings (2014) -- Uncollected Poems -- Me and My Poetry: An Autobiographical Essay -- Acknowledgements -- Books Books in in the the Laurier Laurier Poetry Poetry SeriesSeries

Sommario/riassunto

Nelson Ball has had a significant impact on contemporary Canadian poetry not only as a poet but as an editor, with his Weed/Flower Press in the 1960s and 70s. Certain Details provides a major overview of the breadth and many paths of Ball's poetry over six decades. This selection of his work includes his trademark minimalist poems in addition to longer works and sequences; it spans nature poems, homages, meditations, narratives, found poems, and visual poems. The book contains selections from all of Ball's major collections as well as



works that have previously appeared only in chapbook or ephemeral form. In a generous and thoughtful afterword, and for the first time in print, Ball discusses his processes, influences, and aesthetics. The book is introduced by editor and poet Stuart Ross, who offers a personal entry point into Nelson Ball's extraordinary oeuvre.