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Completed Field Notes

The Long Poems of Robert Kroetsch

By: Robert Kroetsch

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Completed Field Notes

The Long Poems of Robert Kroetsch

By: Robert Kroetsch

This book brings together twenty of Kroetsch's long poems, spanning some of 15 years of creative activity. Remarkably versatile in both form and content, these extended meditations bear witness to Kroetsch's modernist inheritance and his well-known commitment to post-modern jouissance.

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University of Alberta

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0888643500

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9780888643506

The Words of My Roaring

By: Robert Kroetsch

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The Words of My Roaring

By: Robert Kroetsch

I was electioneering. By God, people were listening. People were looking my way. And some joker with his arse begining to ache from sitting too long on a nail had to clear his throat and chip in, "Backstrom, what have you got to offer?" I looked at the speaker and saw he was a farmer and I said, "Mister, how would you like some rain?" A new edition of another classic from one of Canada's most enduring novelists. Introduction by Thomas Wharton.

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192

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University of Alberta

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0888643497

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Post-glacial

The Poetry of Robert Kroetsch

By: Robert Kroetsch

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Post-glacial

The Poetry of Robert Kroetsch

By: Robert Kroetsch

Post-glacial is a collection of poems by Robert Kroetsch selected by his former student David Eso. The book features Kroetsch’s iconic collection, Completed Field Notes, alongside rare work gathered from different stages of Kroetsch’s career. The book contains an afterword by Aritha van Herk. Kroetsch’s poetry evolved from short lyric poetry in the 1960s to postmodern long poems in the 1970s and 80s. Kroetsch’s work in the 1990s and 2000s was marked by the production of experimental chapbooks. Yet it is in the 2000s that Kroetsch’s celebrated The Hornbooks of Rita K and his final collection, Too Bad, were published. Post-glacial presents the material in a thematic arc that follows daily, seasonal, and biographical topics. The collection moves from moods of morning, spring, and youth to shades of darkness, winter, and mourning. In the introduction, Eso charts Kroetsch’s early attempts at poetry in his teenage and undergraduate years. Eso takes the title Post-glacial from the poem “Lonesome Writer Diptych” and proposes the term as an alternative to “postmodernism,” a term often used by critics to describe Kroetsch’s work. Post-glacial emphasizes the poet’s interest in landscape, ecology, history, the presence of absence, and the endurance of a living past.

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128

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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1771124288

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9781771124287

What the Crow Said

By: Robert Kroetsch

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What the Crow Said

By: Robert Kroetsch

Along the way, Big Indian emerges as a place simultaneously in the past and the present, the real and the imaginary, where a game of cards might last forever and a defeated farmer can freeze on his snowbound plow in June.

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232

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University of Alberta

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0888643039

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9780888643032

What the Crow Said

By: Robert Kroetsch

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By: Robert Kroetsch

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University of Alberta

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0888643039

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Badlands

By: Robert Kroetsch

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Badlands

By: Robert Kroetsch

In 1916 William Dawe leads a paleontological expedition into the badlands of Alberta. Fifty years later his daughter enters these same badlands and while visiting the expedition site exposes the absurdity of her father's work.

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360

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Rocky Mountain Books Ltd

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1771600632

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9781771600637

Too Bad

Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait

By: Robert Kroetsch

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Too Bad

Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait

By: Robert Kroetsch

Governor General's Award-winning author shows through stark lyric how "every enduring poem was written today.

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113

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University of Alberta

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0888645376

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9780888645371

The Studhorse Man

By: Robert Kroetsch

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The Studhorse Man

By: Robert Kroetsch

Hazard Lepage, the last of the studhorse men, sets out to breed his rare blue stallion, Poseidon. A lusty trickster and a wayward knight, Hazard's outrageous adventures are narrated by Demeter Proudfoot, his secret rival, who writes this story while sitting naked in an empty bathtub. In his quest to save his stallion’s bloodline from extinction, Hazard leaves a trail of anarchy and confusion. Everything he touches erupts into chaos, necessitating frequent convalescences in the arms of a few good women, except for those of Martha, his long-suffering intended. Told with the ribald zeal of a Prairie beer parlor tall tale and the mythic magnitude of a Greek odyssey, The Studhorse Man is Robert Kroetsch’s celebration of unbridled character set against the backdrop of rough-and-ready Alberta emerging after the Second World War. Introduction by Aritha van Herk.

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University of Alberta

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0888644256

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9780888644251

Badlands

By: Robert Kroetsch

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Badlands

By: Robert Kroetsch

In 1916, scientist William Dawe leads a palaeontological expedition into the badlands of Alberta, obsessed with achieving world renown by discovering dinosaur fossils. Fifty years later, his daughter, Anna, enters these same badlands. In her visit to the expedition site, she exposes not only the absurdity of her father's work, but also the folly of his male ambition.

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244

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0773760857

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9780773760851

The Hornbooks of Rita K

By: Robert Kroetsch

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The Hornbooks of Rita K

By: Robert Kroetsch

The Hornbooks of Rita K, Robert Kroetsch's first volume of new poetry in more than a decade, is a brilliant collection of mysterious fragments. Where has Rita gone and who is reconstructing her oeuvre? Written with wit and playfulness, Hornbooks is a welcome new work from one of Canada's best writers.

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University of Alberta

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0888646356

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The Words of My Roaring

By: Robert Kroetsch

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The Words of My Roaring

By: Robert Kroetsch

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University of Alberta

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0888643497

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Post-glacial

The Poetry of Robert Kroetsch

By: Robert Kroetsch

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The Poetry of Robert Kroetsch

By: Robert Kroetsch

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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1771124288

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The Studhorse Man

By: Robert Kroetsch

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University of Alberta

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Keepers of the Code

English-Canadian Literary Anthologies and the Representation of the Nation

By: Robert Lecker

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Keepers of the Code

English-Canadian Literary Anthologies and the Representation of the Nation

By: Robert Lecker

Keepers of the Code explores the complex network of associations and negotiations that influenced the development of literary anthologies in English Canada from 1837 to the present. Lecker shows that these anthologies are deeply conflicted narratives that embody the tensions and anxieties felt by their editors when faced with the challenge of constructing or rejecting national ideals. He argues that these are intensely self-conscious works with their own literary mechanisms and architecture. In reading the history of these anthologies, he witnesses a complex narrative of nation, a compelling story about the values and interests informing English-Canadian literary history.

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401

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University of Toronto Press

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1442663472

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Canadian Literary Landmarks

By: John Robert Colombo

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Canadian Literary Landmarks

By: John Robert Colombo

Canadian Literary Landmarks

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Dundurn

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0888820739

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9780888820730

Too Bad

Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait

By: Robert Kroetsch

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Too Bad

Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait

By: Robert Kroetsch

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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University of Alberta

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0888645899

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9780888645890

Badlands

By: Robert Kroetsch

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Rocky Mountain Books Ltd

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The Hornbooks of Rita K

By: Robert Kroetsch

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By: Robert Kroetsch

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1772124168

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Cataloger, Editor, and Scholar

Essays in Honor of Ruth C. Carter

By: Robert Holley P

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Essays in Honor of Ruth C. Carter

By: Robert Holley P

Leading figures pay tribute to an expert in the field Honoring the work of Ruth C. Carter upon her retirement as editor of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, Cataloger, Editor, and Scholar is a unique collection that features 21 articles from experts in the field. Celebrating Dr. Carter’s dedication to technical services, cataloging, history, and management, these essays recall all the important aspects of her life and career. The important compendium also includes an interview with Dr. Carter and a review of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly (CCQ) during her 20 years at its helm. In four parts, this wide-ranging collection includes articles that not only span the length and breadth of Dr. Carter’s professional career, but also present new contributions to the field. The first section of Cataloger, Editor, and Scholar considers Dr. Carter’s personal history and direct influence on CCQ as well as what she sees as key issues in cataloging at the beginning of the 21st century. The studies in part two take an international look at cataloging and bibliographic history while new research in the field is presented in part three. Finally, part four offers papers that consider current trends as well as possible directions for the emerging digital future. Chapters in Cataloger, Editor, and Scholar include: a commemorative biographical sketch of Ruth Carter an interview where she discusses her career as a librarian, archivist, historian, and long-time editor a comprehensive review of the contents of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly from 1990-2006 an analysis of the availability of books and reading materials in Monroe County, Indiana, through 1850 annotation as a lost art in cataloging early twentieth-century British libraries twenty-five years of bibliographic control research at the University of Bradford the Italian cataloging tradition and its relationships with the international tradition technical services and tenure impediments and strategies the “works” phenomenon and best selling books measuring typographical errors’ impact on retrieval in bibliographic databases meeting the needs of special format catalogers copy cataloging for print and video monographs in academic libraries balancing principles, practice, and pragmatics in a changing digital environment the development of knowledge structures on the Internet and may more! A unique compilation of the many issues that appeared in CCQ during Dr. Carter’s 20-year tenure, Cataloger, Editor, and Scholar is an informative resource for librarians, LTS professionals, catalogers, students, educators, and researchers.

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441

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Routledge

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1136798781

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9781136798788

Dr. Delicious

Memoirs of a Life in CanLit

By: Robert Lecker

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Dr. Delicious

Memoirs of a Life in CanLit

By: Robert Lecker

With sharp humor and fascinating insight, this memoir of the Canadian publishing industry travels from the boom years of the 1970s to the changing world of books today. Readers are invited along for the ride as Lecker's turn in academia gives way to pop culture publishing, running a journal, and facing the real business challenges of selling books.

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298

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Vehicule Press

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1550652109

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9781550652109

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