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Little Empires

by (author) Robert Colman

Publisher
Quattro Books
Initial publish date
Nov 2012
Category
General
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781927443118
    Publish Date
    Nov 2012
    List Price
    $4.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781927443026
    Publish Date
    Oct 2012
    List Price
    $14.95

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Description

Through the rapidly altered perspectives of romantic relationship and the demands of economic recession, Little Empires pursues what it means to own your changing landscape. In a deft and pithy, elegantly nuanced and urbane style, Robert Colman charts awareness within our fragmenting society, where Tweets drown the present tense, and “purpose” loses its hold on sense. Out of it all comes an enriched appreciation of human connection.

About the author

Robert Colman is a writer and editor based in Newmarket, Ontario, whose work has been published in literary magazines across Canada. His first full-length collection of poems, The Delicate Line (Exile Editions, 2009), was nominated for the ReLit Award.

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Excerpt: Little Empires (by (author) Robert Colman)

Little Empire (after Jack Chambers’ Lunch [unfinished] 1969) / When you painted the linear cleanliness / of your family presiding over Sunday lunch, / was it really, as some critics say, / divine inspiration, with Jesus about to appear / at the empty chair on your right? // The joyous kingdom of the steady, / the sated, you suggest, is in this

Editorial Reviews

"Colman’s subtlety and ease with language inform the observations he makes as he travels fearlessly into the realms of the past, the future; the unknown and perhaps unknowable landscapes of our relationships with others and with ourselves. Having read this beautiful collection, you will stop, catch your breath, and go back and read it again."