Too Bad

Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait

Fiction & Literature, Poetry
Cover of the book Too Bad by Robert Kroetsch, The University of Alberta Press
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Author: Robert Kroetsch ISBN: 9780888645890
Publisher: The University of Alberta Press Publication: February 3, 2010
Imprint: The University of Alberta Press Language: English
Author: Robert Kroetsch
ISBN: 9780888645890
Publisher: The University of Alberta Press
Publication: February 3, 2010
Imprint: The University of Alberta Press
Language: English

A prodigious body of innovative writing behind him, Robert Kroetsch turns to a starker lyrical mode in Too Bad: Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait. Oscillating between the many moods of a human heart that has lived through so much-from whimsy and scorn through desire, longing, lust, love, and serenity-these sketches mark a candid walk through the tortuous corridors of the poet's remembering, and exemplify the rehearsed dictum of an old teacher: "Every enduring poem was written today." Simply put, "This book is not an autobiography. It is a gesture toward a self-portrait, which I take to be quite a different kettle of fish." -- Robert Kroetsch, from the Introduction

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A prodigious body of innovative writing behind him, Robert Kroetsch turns to a starker lyrical mode in Too Bad: Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait. Oscillating between the many moods of a human heart that has lived through so much-from whimsy and scorn through desire, longing, lust, love, and serenity-these sketches mark a candid walk through the tortuous corridors of the poet's remembering, and exemplify the rehearsed dictum of an old teacher: "Every enduring poem was written today." Simply put, "This book is not an autobiography. It is a gesture toward a self-portrait, which I take to be quite a different kettle of fish." -- Robert Kroetsch, from the Introduction

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