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Notes for a Rescue Narrative

Notes for a Rescue Narrative


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Story rescues no one from death, but out of the seams and lacunae of narrative a certain kind of lyric can emerge. In Notes for a Rescue Narrative, J. Mark Smith charts the oxbow turnings of diverse human voices through scepticism and belief, hope and despair, pride and humility. Inspired by the elegiac plainness of Wordsworth as much as by the many-mindedness of Pound, Smith's poems probe into regions of experience where meaning falls away, and "the names hardly stick."

A middle-aged British sailor remembers, decades afterwards, a strange "human-and-not-human" incident in the colonial port of Bombay. A man walking his dog near the Katyn monument in Toronto wonders at signs, and at the "mother-deep" ocean of human suffering. In a moment "out of an airport," the speakers and story-tellers of the Mackenzie River regroup and ready themselves, not for a rescue, but for the future. Blue jays in the pine forests of the Great Basin turn through a death-dance of forgetfulness and fecundity. A traveller on a snow-bound plane straightens his spine to bear the difficult reality of an unstoried present. A man buries his long-dead father"s alpine equipment beneath a mountain in California, and finds a new welcome in the familiar "noise of chaos."

Notes for a Rescue Narrative moves deftly between metrical and free verse forms, and includes homages to Horace, Eugenio Montale, and Antonio Machado.
About the Author: J. Mark Smith was born in Eugene, Oregon and grew up in Edmonton. After twenty-five years of living in other places, including southern California and Toronto, Smith recently returned to his home-town of Edmon- ton to teach in the English department at Grant MacEwan College.

Smith's poems and creative non-fiction pieces have been published in literary journals and magazines. Notes For A Rescue Narrative is his first book of poems. He holds a doctorate in English from UC Irvine, and has published scholarly articles on nineteenth and twentieth century poetry and poetics. He lives with his wife, Jennifer Stewart, and their dog, Jasper, near the North Saskatchewan river valley.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780889822337
  • Publisher: Oolichan Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Oolichan Books
  • Height: 172 mm
  • No of Pages: 79
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 177 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0889822336
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 220 mm


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