Inauspicious Times
Published on 25. November 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
170 pages
978-1-77161-192-3 (ISBN)
Description
"Writing is my way to travel into interior countries of darkness & light & bring back stories, snapshots, fragments to astonish, to nourish, to challenge." --Hume Cronyn Hume Cronyn's work has received wide critical acclaim: "...one of the best books I've read in a long time, an undogmatic manifesto that's anarchistic, funny, and mad. It's so good I'm grateful to it that I didn't want it to end. Everything about this book - its energy, fierce comic wisdom, its stuffed and muscled lines -fills me with wonder. The poems are willfully raw and honest, compelled by defiance, joy, anger and wild white-light hope...I have never read a book that took Whitman further and took me, exhilarated, out of myself into the traffic jam, the mess of humanity."-- Margaret Sweatman, Books in Canada "This is impressive poetry. It is brilliant and able to enter into the heart of desperate and disturbed feelings, illuminating them and expressing them with insight and beauty." --Stella Stocker, Orbis
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ontario
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
218 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77161-192-3 (9781771611923)
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Hume Cronyn lived in England for twenty years before returning to Canada in the late 1990's. He has worked as a stock broker, a short-order chef, a roustabout on an oil rig, a lecturer in Greek mythology and Modern Literature. He has worked on & off for the past 35 years at a drop-in centre for psychiatric survivors in Toronto. He has published four books of poetry, Birdhouse Contributions (Slow dancer, England), Bake My Brain (Mosaic Press, 1993), Rotten poetry fish (Mosaic Press, 2000), don't ask me to clean up the basement ( Mosaic Press, 2009).