The lost cafeteria /
Taking cues from the 20th century life writing of Robin Blaser, Frank O'Hara, William Everson, Sylvia Plath and Alden Nowlan, The Lost Cafeteria is a stylistically shapeshifting bildungsroman in verse set between the author's evangelical upbringing and peripatetic adulthood. Exploring the...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Winnipeg :
Signature Editions,
[2020].
|
| Subjects: |
| Summary: | Taking cues from the 20th century life writing of Robin Blaser, Frank O'Hara, William Everson, Sylvia Plath and Alden Nowlan, The Lost Cafeteria is a stylistically shapeshifting bildungsroman in verse set between the author's evangelical upbringing and peripatetic adulthood. Exploring the shape of the "I-within-history," Ferguson mixes confessional lyric poetry with experimental deÌ?tournements of advertising and human resources ideolects to visit (and revisit) themes of labor, family (biological and chosen), class, travel, religion and the meanings of the word "home." |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | 98 pages : portrait ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1773240641 9781773240640 |