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The Occasional Troubadour

English · Paperback / Softback

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Poetry. Art. THE OCCASIONAL TROUBADOUR is a series of 52 portraits of friends, acquaintances, and cultural favourites generated by applying the mesostic form to a late nineteenth century English text (in two volumes) by Justin Harvey Smith: The Troubadours at Home, Their lives and personalities, their songs and their world (G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York & London, The Knickerbocker Press, 1898-99). Readers of the late, great American composer/writer John Cage will be familiar with the mesostic form. Readers of Victor Coleman's 1972 book, AMERICA, will probably have registered that it contains a series of poems which are both acrostic and telestich. The poems in THE OCCASIONAL TROUBADOUR are "occasional" poems, because the initial composition was written for the 60th birthday of one of Coleman's oldest friends and Coach House colleague, photographer/writer David Hlynsky. This book is a departure from Coleman's LETTER DROP trilogy in that these poems are in no way lipogrammatic, although he does consider it to be an extension of his OuLiPo practice.

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VICTOR COLEMAN lives and works in Toronto. He has taught courses in modern and postmodern literature at Toronto New School of Writing, and leads an ongoing Writers Workshop at The Coach House Press that is open to anyone interested in "progressive" writing and thinking.


Product details

Authors Victor Coleman
Assisted by David Bolduc (Illustration)
Publisher Book*hug Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.11.2010
 
EAN 9781897388686
ISBN 978-1-897388-68-6
No. of pages 96
Dimensions 173 mm x 198 mm x 8 mm
Weight 113 g
Subject Fiction > Poetry, drama

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