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Poetry Canadian

Autodidactic

by (author) Don Kerr

Publisher
Brick Books
Initial publish date
Sep 1997
Category
Canadian
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781771311717
    Publish Date
    Sep 1997
    List Price
    $11.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780919626928
    Publish Date
    Jun 1997
    List Price
    $12.95

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Shortlisted for the 1998 Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry

Don Kerr's fifth poetry collection is a verbal joyride, an exuberant celebration of a book: a celebration of mountains and plains, of growing up and of being young, of being alive in the present moment and absorbing the feel of the road through the palms of your hands on the wheel. Autodidactic represents an erotics of the everyday, a tribute to place (and movement) and to family (and friends). This is not to say that Kerr sentimentalizes the ordinary, but rather that by examining it in the bright prairie sunlight, he is able to reveal its true extraordinariness. The deep-felt humour that is in many of the poems here does not arise from gilding events with comedy, but from the poet's seeing and drawing out of events what is truly and inherently comic within them. In this book Kerr is able to demonstrate the many shades of his voice and the many facets of his craft.

About the author

Don Kerr is the author of numerous poetry collections, plays, and short stories. He served on the Saskatoon Public Library Board for eleven years, and as chair for five of those years. He was the first chair of the Saskatoon Heritage Society and the first chair of the Saskatoon Municipal Heritage Committee. He was also the Saskatchewan governor for the Heritage Canada Foundation. He lives in Saskatoon.

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