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Biography & Autobiography Literary

So Got Schooled

In the Tower, On the Field

by (author) Stephen Bett

Publisher
Ekstasis Editions
Initial publish date
Aug 2017
Category
Literary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781771712477
    Publish Date
    Aug 2017
    List Price
    $24.95

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Description

Stephen Bett is a widely and internationally published Canadian poet with eighteen books in print. In his first book of (non-fiction) prose, So Got Schooled: in the tower, on the field, we find three memoirs, from the hilarious tell-all account of managing a senior men’s soccer team where players more often than not seem to be smacking each other about in the kindergarten sandbox, to the last-ditch stand of a ‘terribly’ British-style boys’ school in the far west Canadian ‘colonies’ of the early 1960s, to the feudalism of 1970s grad school under supervision of the brilliant, but also petulant, Robin Blaser, before the advent of student grievance rights.

About the author

Stephen Bett's writing and college teaching life has been informed by the "counter tradition " of Black Mountain, the San Francisco Renaissance, and the New York School (1st and 2nd generations), and how that played out in Canada with the TISH poets, and beyond. His more recent books are "minimalist " in form, often stretching into "serial poems (book-length "linked poems"). This allows for the surprise of echoing back and forth — everything from idea to image to cadence. Bett's work, like its creator, is recognized as funny, satirical and unique. He lives in Vancouver. Previous books include: Re-positioning , Track This: A Book of Relationship, Extreme Positions, Sass 'n Pass, Three Women, Nota Bene Poems: A Journey, and High-Maintenance.

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