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Bezig met laden... Wore Down Trust: A Blues in Three Livesdoor Michael Blouin
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Oh, admit this, man, there is no point in poetryif you withhold the truthonce you've come by it. - Alden NowlanWore Down Trust incorporates poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, biography, vodka and the blues in an examination of desperation and perseverance. Utilizing a blues format, the narrative strings through the lives--pre and post death, real and imagined--of American country singer Johnny Cash and Canadian poet Alden Nowlan. Long haul trailers thunder past. Ice chimes in the glass. There is much in what we want that we do not know. A careful hand in a sharply cuffed suit. An ankle dove tattoo. Walking down the road but going nowhere. A rough hewn but finely honed testament to loss and redemption in the lives of three men--one, the Poet--Wore Down Trust is a postmodern postmortem of hope, aspiration and mortality, told in voices that ring from the American south and Canada's east coast, in a four bar, roadside lounge arrangement encompassing lost dreams, early morning smoke, late night lamplight and words that hang alone in the evening air. the first house didn't have any windowsshe hung blanketsshe hung blankets, whatever she could findthey made the best they couldshe hung blankets - they made their way the best they couldyou could find her heart on any mapthe soft breezenot stirring Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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This is the latest by our pals at Canadian small publisher Pedlar Press, which as regular readers know is dedicated to putting out experimental prose/poetry projects that challenge the notion of traditional narrative; and here author Michael Blouin does a particularly remarkable job, taking as his premise the life stories of musician Johnny Cash and writer Aldan Nowlan (two artists with eerily similar backgrounds, who actually met briefly in 1975), effortlessly switching between poetry and prose to tell lightly fictionalized bios of the two, remarks about the author's own life, and simply observations about the world in general, mixing the whole thing up so that it lays on the page in the same general structure as the average blues song. A great volume to read in slow bits in the space between bed and sleep (and with your drifting consciousness adding to the surrealism that much more), like most of the Pedlar titles this comes strongly recommended but only to the legitimately adventurous, those who enjoy not just reading manuscripts but climbing inside them, and examining the language found there much like kicking the tires of a used car. It is bound to be loved when approached in this fashion.
Out of 10: 8.9, or 9.4 for fans of experimental fiction (