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Poetry Canadian

Hogg

The Poems and Drawings

by (author) Barry Callaghan

introduction by Hayden Carruth

Publisher
McArthur & Company
Initial publish date
Sep 1993
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781552780336
    Publish Date
    Sep 1993
    List Price
    $29.95

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Description

There is an extraordinary figure on the landscape. His name is Hogg, known to be ambling through history and cities without apparent purpose but secretly in search of passionate adventure, telling his story in poems continuing to create himself. This time, he has gone straight into the inferno of the past century, Leningrad, to make love under the murderous eye of all the cops in the sky. As the great American poet, Hayden Carruth says about the poems collected here: “The centred line contain the murderous image, all the more grim for its sardonic elegance. I know nothing like these poems. They are brilliant extrapolations from an appalled imagination at the end of a dreadful millennium, unquestionably first-rate.”

About the authors

BARRY CALLAGHAN founded the internationally celebrated literary quarterly, Exile, and imprint, Exile Editions, while he was a war correspondent in the Middle East and Africa in the 1970s. He is a novelist, poet and journalist and his work has been much anthologized. His numerous awards include Toronto’s One Hundred Outstanding Citizens Award, the inaugural W. Mitchell Award and the Foundation For The Advancement of Canadian Letters Award for Fiction which he was honoured with twice.

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