Too Bad: Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait

by Robert Kroetsch

A prodigious body of innovative writing behind him, Robert Kroetsch turns to a starker lyrical mode in Too Bad: Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait. Oscillating between the many moods of a human heart that has lived through so much-from whimsy and scorn through desire, longing, lust, love, and serenity-these sketches mark a candid walk through the tortuous corridors of the poet's remembering, and exemplify the rehearsed dictum of an old teacher: "Every...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888645376
• ISBN13: 9780888645371
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up