Bloody Jack

by Dennis Cooley and Dennis Cooley

P>You are about to read a book like no other. Bloody Jack is a collection about the making and unmaking of story, of poetry and of history. Based loosely on the life of John Krafchenko, a notorious Manitoban outlaw, the poems of Bloody Jack turn fact and fiction upside down and inside out. Dennis Cooley has added more than a dozen new poems to this revised edition and Douglas Barbour has written an introduction. By turns earthy and earnest, soulful...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888010915
• ISBN13: 9780888010919
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Turnstone Press
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Ranging the gamut from love lyrics to a "murder whodunit"

Bloody Jack is a collection of free-verse poetry by Canadian poet Dennis Cooley and is loosely based upon the life of John Krafchenko, a notorious Manitoban outlaw. Ranging the gamut from love lyrics, to a "murder whodunit", to philosophical conundrums, to the humdrum daily life, the unusual spacing of lines adds a distinctive flavor to the evocative and captivating verses. "in spring sky is sprung / opens like a mousetrap / there is a wind so grey and so hard it is aluminum / so cold if you stand too close it explodes in small bottles"