Rank Songbirds - Rooke, Leon
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"Leon Rooke's Rank Songbirds delves into dramatic and intense relationships, politics and the quirks of society, celebrating humanity's resilience in spite of--or perhaps because of--its flaws. 'Songbirds, Leon Rooke deploys his considerable wit and his signature whimsy to explore the joys and the burdens, the hilarities and the anxieties of modern life. These are poems that revel in a piercing look at foibles, saucy verbal sparring and the possibilities of artistic expression while recognizing the fallibility of humanity, with its voracious appetites, its complicit silences, its convoluted…mehr

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"Leon Rooke's Rank Songbirds delves into dramatic and intense relationships, politics and the quirks of society, celebrating humanity's resilience in spite of--or perhaps because of--its flaws. 'Songbirds, Leon Rooke deploys his considerable wit and his signature whimsy to explore the joys and the burdens, the hilarities and the anxieties of modern life. These are poems that revel in a piercing look at foibles, saucy verbal sparring and the possibilities of artistic expression while recognizing the fallibility of humanity, with its voracious appetites, its complicit silences, its convoluted politics. And though it may be that 'Those angels serenading us through / Hazardous night were rank songbirds chirping away / Mindless of hawks zooming overhead,' these poems remind us that today isn't last week's curse, that freedom is getting the high notes right and that, in a pinch, one might 'apply love's bandage to the shattered heart / This minute pooling blood about your feet"
Autorenporträt
Leon Rooke is an energetic and prolific storyteller whose writing is characterized by inventive language, experimental form and a wide range of engaging and often absurd characters with distinctive voices. He has written plays for radio and stage and produced numerous collections of short stories. It is his novels, however, that have received the most critical acclaim. Fat Woman (1980) was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and won the Paperback Novel of the Year Award. Shakespeare's Dog won the Governor General's Award in 1983 and toured as a play as far afield as Barcelona and Edinburgh. A Good Baby was made into a feature film. Rooke founded the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 1989. In 2007, Rooke was invested into the Order of Canada. He lives in Toronto.