Apollinaire's Speech to the War Medic

by Jake Kennedy

Apollinaire's Speech to the War Medic is to Canadian poetry what Francis Ponge's steaming brioches are to Parisian cobblestone. In other words, this is a book that revels in the that-which-gets-left-behind and is just plain old fascinated with the plop of things. Metaphor is plundered as a doorway into the attic of the basement of objects and animals and phenomena, and inside you'll find poem-studies about hammers, tigers, grass, fire, cat...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1897388772
• ISBN13: 9781897388778
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Book*hug Press
• Length: 96 Pages