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Set firmly at the end of the millennium, A Broken Bowl takes on the burden of history, with its heaped atrocities, its unimaginable sufferings. This long poem is an angry lament, a summoning of fragments, a meditation in the midst of an exhausted world. By turns lyric, satiric, elegiac and incantatory, A Broken Bowl is filled with passionate elemental writing in the tradition of Howl and Crow.
“Picture-building poetry doesn’t get better than this. Patrick Friesen communicates directly to your imagination. These fragments of a broken bowl are, indeed, much greater than the sum of their parts as they spur imaginal encounters not only with Friesen but with the scattered bits of the reader’s self – each piece a new gesture to try on.” — Per Brask.
“These are the end days – someone’s got a kitchen knife and is ‘looking for the government’ the river is a ‘filthy transfusion.’ Patrick Friesen sings this dark song with beauty and a guttering love. We’re long past apology, reconstruction: there’s only Friesen’s voice not nearly enough, sure, but the only thing worthy of trust.” — Tim Lilburn.
NOMINATED for the 1997 Governor General’s Award for Poetry.
” … A powerful lamentation and perhaps also a necessary catharsis.” Ñ Glen Downie, Event
134 Pages
8.75in * 5.5in * 0.3125in
0.555lb
October 16, 1997
CA
9780919626935
eng
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