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Kurgan - Coles, Don
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Most of all, it is Coles's mastery of syntax, sinuous and unpredictable, that brings his poems alive. The trademark hesitations, asides and parentheses that mark his lines derive from speech (a Hemingway wife is one of the specialty, I am/going to risk saying, dishes in the big man's/moveable feast'') and are all measured out and weighed in beautifully constructed sentences. They reflect, I will risk saying, a radical skepticism: Nothing/here doubts itself, from which it follows/there is not a hint of me here, '' he tells us. This doubt, perhaps Coles's most modern trait, runs through and…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Most of all, it is Coles's mastery of syntax, sinuous and unpredictable, that brings his poems alive. The trademark hesitations, asides and parentheses that mark his lines derive from speech (a Hemingway wife is one of the specialty, I am/going to risk saying, dishes in the big man's/moveable feast'') and are all measured out and weighed in beautifully constructed sentences. They reflect, I will risk saying, a radical skepticism: Nothing/here doubts itself, from which it follows/there is not a hint of me here, '' he tells us. This doubt, perhaps Coles's most modern trait, runs through and enriches all of "Kurgan" (as it did his great book-length poem "Little Bird") and places his poetry among the very best being written in English.'
Autorenporträt
Don Coles was born April 12, 1927, in the town of Woodstock, Ontario. Coles entered Victoria College at the University of Toronto in 1945. He did a four-year history degree, then a two-year M.A. in English, spending two undergraduate summers in Trois-Pistoles, Quebec, learning French, and one summer travelling in Europe. He had several courses with Northrop Frye and Marshall McLuhan, whom he recalls as the best teachers of his life. In between the two M.A. years, he spent a year in Lon