Occupations
- Publisher
- Nightwood Editions
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2012
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780889712652
- Publish Date
- Apr 2012
- List Price
- $18.95
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Description
The poems in Chris Jennings's long-awaited debut poetry collection are linked at their core by a preoccupation with the ways objects or moments become charged with meaning. Narrative occupies the territory of memory, making the most ordinary things--a classified ad, the odds and ends of an estate auction, graffiti, an antique lancet, a vegetable stand--touchstones and reliquaries of other lives. Sometimes reserved, sometimes exploring what a poet can do with excess, Jennings moves fluidly between objective detachment, quiet intimacy and the tone of a cynic in a sentimental mood.
About the author
Chris Jennings grew up in Calgary, studied in Toronto, and now lives in Ottawa. His poems and critical work have appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including Best Canadian Essays 2011. He was a founding editor of filling Station magazine, was assistant editor of the University of Toronto Quarterly and is currently on the board of Arc Poetry Magazine.