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Popular Narratives

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Popular Narratives

By (author): Frank Davey

This book of prose poems strips down the codes and conventions that make up our society’s “popular narratives.” A revealing and witty, exploded view of our culture.

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Frank Davey

?Frank Davey is a widely published author and literary critic. He has taught at York University and the University of Western Ontario, where he held the Carl F. Klinck Professorship in?Canadian Literature.

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“Risqué metaphors … scandalously unpoetic … a powerful alternative to the orthodoxy of poetic beauty.”
—Smaro Kamboureli


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This book of prose poems strips down the codes and conventions that make up our society’s “popular narratives.” A revealing and witty, exploded view of our culture.

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Dimensions:

96 Pages
8.5in * 216mm * 5.5in * 140mm * 0.3125in8mm
142gr
5.125oz

Published:

January 01, 1991

City of Publication:

Vancouver

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

Talonbooks

ISBN:

9780889222854

9780889228801 – EPUB

Book Subjects:

POETRY / Canadian

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Language:

eng

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