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Simple moments crackling with psychological complexity blend with a sophisticated narrative tone to create this poetry collection. Infusing energized, improvisatory fluency into each elongated work of prose, philosophical inquiries are given careful and precise scrutiny as they are grounded within real world examples. Don Coles explores his personal ideas about family, memories, and mortality with exciting and exposing examination. Visiting Eu...

With an introduction by critic W.J. Keith, this overdue reissue of Coles's early virtuosity--a voice whose austere, tender, insouciant, sad-lit clarity reinvented Canadian poetry--allows readers to glimpse the evolution and shaping of a major writer.

In A Serious Call, Governor General's Award-winner Don Coles presents a collection of moments suspended in time: a line of poetry, forgotten for years and remembered as often, a photograph cut out of a 1942 newspaper that saves its subjects not from death but from oblivion, a fond memory of a bookshop in Southwark, where books feed a love of literature and a life-long friendship. In a deceptively plainspoken style enhanced by his signature pre...

The frame of Don Coles' Little Bird is a love letter to his father. It is also about their familial bond and the languages they used to conduct that relationship. Little Bird is a subtle, wise, witty exploration of the inheritance of language, of family circumstances, and, ultimately, of love.

An adventure of a risky sort: a series of anecdotes displaying vitality and lyricism.

The third in a celebrated Porcupine's Quill series of Essential Poets' that already includes "The Essential George Johnston" (2007), and "The Essential P. K. Page" (2008). Volumes in preparation include "The Essential Margaret Avison, " "The Essential James Reaney" and "The Essential Richard Outram, " amongst others.

Most of all, it is Coles's mastery of syntax, sinuous and unpredictable, that brings his poems alive. The trademark hesitations, asides and parentheses that mark his lines derive from speech (a Hemingway wife is one of the specialty, I am/going to risk saying, dishes in the big man's/moveable feast'') and are all measured out and weighed in beautifully constructed sentences. They reflect, I will risk saying, a radical skepticism: Nothing/here ...