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more... bentleys (the) In the bentleys, Dennis Cooley, with his trademark energy and verve, has recreated the tensions and themes of Sinclair Ross's classic prairie novel As for Me and My House. Celebrating 'love in a dry land,' Cooley, with his deft, playful command of language, and his typographic exuberance, demonstrates his mastery of the long prairie poem. Containing some of the finest writing of his career, the bentleys will take its place with Bloody Jack as a 'beJesus delight.' Contributor Dennis Cooley,  Author Dennis Cooley was born in Estevan, Saskatchewan, and raised on a farm near there. He later moved to Manitoba, where he helped to start the Manitoba Writers' Guild and was a founding member of Turnstone Press. He is Professor of English at St. John's College, University of Manitoba, where he teaches Canadian literature, poetry, creative writing and literary theory. He has published more than one hundred articles, reviews, interviews and columns; is the editor of several collections and author of two critical books; has published a dozen volumes of poetry, including Bloody Jack (2002) and country music (2004), and helps run the Canlit Archives on the Internet. Dennis Cooley lives in Winnipeg. More titles by this Contributor Bloody Jack 2002