The Face of Jack Munro

The poems collected in "The Face of Jack Munro" may be set on the Canadian Prairies, in the Kootenay region of southeastern BC, or in Vancouver during the 1983 Solidarity public sector general strike. But the humour, concern for the individual, and biting social commentary found throughout this collection are exactly what readers of Tom Wayman have learned to expect. "If we gave Wayman a chance to change the world, I think it would be safe in his hands. He came out of the radical sixties a radical, though I think it's more accurate and less type-casting to call him a man of common sense. The social consciousness, hatred of inequality, is the bones. So is the vision." -Stan Draglund, "Canadian Literature"

List of contents

CONTENTS

A PRAIRIE OF LIGHT
A Reason
December Letter to Pier Giorgio Di Cicco in Toronto
Forrie, O'Rourke, Penner, Sorestad
Suburban Pedagogy
Snowing
Road Songs
Giving Another Reading: Jasper Park
Articulating West

YOUR CLOTHES HAVE EXPERIENCES YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT
Raising a Relationship
Your Clothes Have Experiences You Know Nothing About
Sorting the Trash
Sleep
Nuclear Hockey
Lecture
Virus
Silos
Nationalism In No Way
The Music in the Silos
The Meadow
Enough
Paper
Mike

OPUSCULUM PAEDAGOGUM - A LITTLE WORK THAT TEACHES
Hammer
Surplus Value Poem
Bosses
The Sound: Factory System Poem
The Tongues
Surplus Value: Chalk White
Job Security
Holding the Line
Vest
Paper, Scissors, Stone
Bigfoot
Surplus Value: Interest
The Drawer

MOUNTAIN IN IT
Introductory
Dream of the Generals
Arboreal
Nuance
Breath: for Fred Wah
Country Feuds
Salmonwater
Wood
Motion Pictures
The Town Where Time Takes His Holidays
Broken Toes
Students
Why You Only Got "B Plus"
Wayman Among the Administrators
Uplands
East Kootenay Illumination
Saving the World
Monashee

THE FACE OF JACK MUNRO
The Hands
Meeting
Beetle
The Face of Jack Munro
In the Traitors' Season

About the author

Tom Wayman was born in Ontario in 1945, but has spent most of his life in British Columbia. He has worked at a number of jobs, both blue and white-collar, across Canada and the U.S., and has helped bring into being a new movement of poetry in these countries--the incorporation of the actual conditions and effects of daily work. His poetry has been awarded the Canadian Authors' Association medal for poetry, the A.J.M. Smith Prize, first prize in the USA Bicentennial Poetry Awards competition, and the Acorn-Plantos Award; in 2003 he was shortlisted for the Governor-General's Literary Award. He has published more than a dozen collections of poems, six poetry anthologies, three collections of essays and three books of prose fiction. He has taught widely at the post-secondary level in Canada and the U.S., most recently (2002-2010) at the University of Calgary. Since 1989 he has been the Squire of "Appledore," his estate in the Selkirk Mountains of southeastern BC.

Summary

The poems collected in The Face of Jack Munro may be set on the Canadian Prairies, in the Kootenay region of southeastern BC, or in Vancouver during the 1983 Solidarity public sector general strike. But the humour, concern for the individual, and biting social commentary found throughout this collection are exactly what readers of Tom Wayman have learned to expect.

"If we gave Wayman a chance to change the world, I think it would be safe in his hands. He came out of the radical sixties a radical, though I think it's more accurate and less type-casting to call him a man of common sense. The social consciousness, hatred of inequality, is the bones. So is the vision."
-Stan Draglund, Canadian Literature

Product details

• Authors: Tom Wayman
• Publisher: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9780920080597
• ISBN: 978-0-920080-59-7
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 125 mm x 216 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 281 g
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama