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| Title: | Bloody Jack
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| Author: | Dennis Coole; Introduction by Douglas Barbour |
| ISBN: | 0888643918 : 9780888643919 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 280 |
| Weight: | .476 Kg. |
| Published: | University of Alberta Press - December 2002 |
| List Price: | 13.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Poetry & poets: from c1900- |
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 and sly, Bloody Jack is a rollicking, fun-filled riot of a volume by one of Canada's favourite poets.
"Based loosely on the infamous Manitoban outlaw John ‘Jack’ Krafchenko, Bloody Jack employs a Rabelaisian verve to explore and explode the notions of history, poetry, story, language, author and reader. As it vaguely but insistently charts western Canadian culture, it becomes a catalogue of literary parodies, of (cunning) linguistic possibilities, brimming over with poetic extravaganza....In relation to the original 1984 publication, this revised, expanded edition pushes the sense of playfulness even further: film scripts, synoptical prose pieces, and reflections on the status as a new edition (in its ‘late teens’) add more dimensions to the text-as-process....Bloody Jack (2002) - bigger, bolder, more self-reflexive - has yet increased its value, through its many expansions (more than twenty new pieces) and through Canadian poet and critic Douglas Barbour's ingenious introduction, a poetic analysis and contextualisation of Cooley's major achievement. This beautiful reissue will (again) earn the book the status of a prairie literature classic. It will cement, once and for all, the standing of Cooley - that body vernacular incarnate who has published a dozen books of poetry...as one of Canada's leading poets." -- Markus M. Muller, Germany, British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol.17, No. 1, 2004.
