After Words

by Stan Rogal

Overview

The idea for this collection was to offer a tip of the hat to people whose lives and/or works have influenced the author. Each piece is forwarded by a short background story as well as an epigram which provides some descriptive entry and flavour. The key was to construct these pieces in the author's own style and voice and not fall into simple mimicry. Many names have been encrypted into the pieces as fractured homonyms, a sort of pun for the astute reader.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781550718621
Publisher:	Guernica Editions, Incorporated
Publication date:	07/01/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Stan Rogal was born in Vancouver and has resided in Toronto for 25 years. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies in Canada, the US and Europe, some in translation. He has published 19 books, including 4 novels, 4 story and 11 poetry collections. He is also a produced playwright and artistic director of Bulletproof Theatre.

Editorial Reviews

Stan Rogal's latest collection, After Words, offers a series of scintillating poetic responses to authors and artists from the recent and distant past. Rogal's sophisticated awareness of poetic possibilities gestures to what happens outside the conventions of language, tilting beyond words, while pursuing after words. Throughout these meta-poetic portrayals, Rogal's autobiographical narrator inhabits the realms of literary and artistic precursors including Artaud, Atwood, Bogart, Burroughs, Calvino, Cohen, Eliot, Nin, and Shakespeare. A series of brilliant tours-de-force while providing an inspirational tour of the art of words.
- Karl Jirgens, Editor Rampike

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