The Kindness Colder Than the Elements
- Publisher
- Athabasca University Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2011
- Subjects
- General, Canadian
- Categories
- Author lives in Alberta
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781926836645
- Publish Date
- Sep 2011
- List Price
- $16.99
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Description
With wit and cunning, Noble's poems insinuate themselves into the mediations of "we use language" / "language uses us," into the objectification of "mind," into the struggles and cracking of systems. Cuing on Hegel's epochal revitalization of the syllogism, they begin with sentences-cum-arguments that issue from an everyman's intentions and insights, playing into and baiting the "sociality of reason." In the cut-up sentences then come the restless, accelerated themes—themes that exist only in their variations, ghosting into one another like the dusk and the dawn in a winging, distended now.
About the author
Since 1972, Charles Noble has been publishing poetry in a modest Canadian literary underground. A few of the titles that have emerged are Doubt’s Boots (U of C Press), Hearth Wild / post cardiac Banff (Thistledown Press), and Wormwood, Vermouth, Warphistory (Thistledown Press), which won the 1996 Writers Guild of Alberta poetry award.