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Author: Robert Kroetsch
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Nov 1995
A Somewhat Schizophrenic Package
by Tim Bowling
The most important point to make about A Likely Story is that it's not an autobiography, at least not in any conventional sense. In fact, the author himself claims that such a genre is impossible. As a result, the book is entirely free of literary Read more...
| Aug 2001
 | Completed Field Notes
by Robert Kroetsch
University of Alberta Press
256 pages $19.95 paper
ISBN: 0888643500
|  | This Tremour Love Is
by Daphne Marlatt
Talonbooks
112 pages $15.95 paper
ISBN: 0889224501
|  | Steveston
by Daphne Marlatt
Ronsdale Press
112 pages paper
ISBN: 0921870809
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Kroetch and Marlatt's Outstanding Field Work
by Rob McLennan
Completed Field Notes, is Robert Kroetsch's continuing poem, started in 1973, with his "Stone Hammer Poems" (Oolichan Books, 1975). Considered, in essays and reviews, to be one of the most important written of so many other times and ways, this is poetry that shows a body how it is done. Read more...
| JanFeb 1987
Poetry
by Louise LONGO
Fans of Robert Kroetsch's poetry (of whom I am one) may find Excerpts from the Real Florid disappointing. Though it does contain some delightful whimsy and a fine sense of the playful side of the literary life, artfully mingled with the more sombre, its total effect doesn't quite add up to anything memorable. At times the tone is intentionally undermining and even mocking - of the poetic intent:
26/4/85
Everything recurs (more or leas). Consider, for Instance, spring. Read more...
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