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Jon Paul Fiorentino and Robert Kroetsch, eds. Post-Prairie: An Anthology of New Poetry.

Publication: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
Publication Date: 22-MAR-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Jon Paul Fiorentino and Robert Kroetsch, eds. Post-Prairie: An Anthology of New Poetry.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Jon Paul Fiorentino and Robert Kroetsch, eds. Post-Prairie: An Anthology of New Poetry. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2005. 160 pp. $19.95 sc.

In Post-Prairie, the editors, Jon Fiorentino and Robert Kroetsch, complain that "the prairie was missing" from the poems that they collected in this anthology. The twenty-five poets are representative of a younger generation of writers who are from this Canadian region, and this collection can be read as a report on the state of the poetic art on the prairies. In their introductory dialogue, Kroetsch and Fiorentino question whether these poets are continuing in, or are writing against, the older prairie tradition of Dennis Cooley, Eli Mandel, Andrew Suknaski, Anne Marriot, Fred Wah, Roy Miki, and David Arnason. They find that...



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