All This Could Be Yours

By (author): Joshua Trotter

Like the promise of its title, All This Could Be Yours is full of elusive gifts. Joshua Trotter’s debut collection is a metaphysical hall of windows that seem to be mirrors and mirrors presenting themselves as windows. Trotter’s poems – which could be the bastard love-children of Stevens and Frost – refract, reflect and deflect with canny puns and rhymes, the rigour of their forms belying the rogue trickster twists of cockeyed logic they take and the po-faced near-sense in which they speak. Don’t be fooled into thinking these poems glib: Trotter is often most serious precisely at his most blithe; his poems are always thought-full. Full of “intemperate winds / blown thinking from the ledge, through the gap // between the frame and what it haunts for us,” they resist the intelligence, almost successfully, as Stevens said a poem should.

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Joshua Trotter

Joshua Trotter lives in Montreal. His work has been anthologized in Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets and The Best Canadian Poetry in English. His first book, All This Could Be Yours, was selected by the National Post as one of the top 10 poetry books of 2010.


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Dimensions:

64 Pages
8.25in * 5.30in * .30in
120.00gr

Published:

April 21, 2011

Publisher:

Biblioasis

ISBN:

9781897231968

Book Subjects:

POETRY / Canadian

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Language:

eng

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