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The Least Important Man
Alex Boyd
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Description for The Least Important Man
Paperback. A serious-minded collection from one of Canada's foremost young poets, critics, and editors. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 5. Weight in Grams: 114.
The least important man was a boy in the 1970s. He remembers clubhouses, plastic soldiers, swimming lessons, rocket launches, a grandfather's letters from World War I. Those days are long gone, however: now the least important man is grown up. He lives in the city. He suffers endless rush hours, he dreams of other places, he drinks cheap coffee and crosses streets and sees explosions on the TV news. But through it all he's still thinking about that old life, and wondering what it meant, and asking in his quiet way how he might reconcile two such transient worlds with ... Read more
The least important man was a boy in the 1970s. He remembers clubhouses, plastic soldiers, swimming lessons, rocket launches, a grandfather's letters from World War I. Those days are long gone, however: now the least important man is grown up. He lives in the city. He suffers endless rush hours, he dreams of other places, he drinks cheap coffee and crosses streets and sees explosions on the TV news. But through it all he's still thinking about that old life, and wondering what it meant, and asking in his quiet way how he might reconcile two such transient worlds with ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Biblioasis Canada
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Emeryville, Canada
ISBN
9781926845401
SKU
V9781926845401
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About Alex Boyd
Alex Boyd: Alex Boyd is the author of Making Bones Walk (Luna 2007), the editor of Northern Poetry Review, and the co-founder of the Best Canadian Essays series; Making Bones Walk won the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry. Boyd writes for the Globe & Mail and lives in Toronto.
Reviews for The Least Important Man
"Consistently strong. Boyd's images and metaphors are deft." - Winnipeg Free Press "The poet can work magic in miniature: poems about chess pieces, toy soldiers, and house spiders each animate aspects of civic and personal life ... 'Basil Rathbone Meets God,' 'A Stuntman Destroys the Hate Window,' 'Samuel Drowns, at Thirty' and others are among the book's most beautiful and ... Read more