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Bloody Jack
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| You are about to read a book like no other. Bloody Jack is a collection about the making and unmaking of story, of poetry and of history.
Based loosely on the life of John Krafchenko, a notorious Manitoban outlaw, the poems of Bloody Jack turn fact and fiction upside down and inside out. Travel with Jack and his beloved Penny, experience both writing and being written, reading and being read. You begin to remember what you have not yet known and did not yet realize you were missing.
Dennis Cooley has added more than a dozen new poems to this revised edition, extending his playful relationship with the already elusive text. Poet and scholar Douglas Barbour’s contextual introduction helps the reader understand both the original volume and the wonder of its new existence.
By turns earthy and earnest, soulful and sly, Bloody Jack is a rollicking, fun-filled riot of a volume by one of Canada’s favourite poets. |
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| 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.
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| bentleys (the) 2006 |
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| Douglas Barbour, Introduction |
| Douglas Barbour’s many books of poetry include Visible Visions: The Selected Poems of Douglas Barbour (NeWest Press 1984), winner of the Stephan Stephannson Award for Poetry, Fragmenting Body etc. (NeWest Press / SALT Publishing 2000), Breath Takes (Wolsak & Wynn 2001), and the chapbook, A Flame on the Spanish Stairs (greenboathousebooks 2002). Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta, he lives in Edmonton. |
| https://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm |
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| Continuations 2006 |
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