{"product_id":"9781554586318","title":"Plans Deranged by Time: The Poetry of George Fetherling","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Toronto \u003ci\u003eStar\u003c\/i\u003e called him a legendary figure in Canadian writing, and indeed George Fetherling has been prolific in many genres: poetry, history, travel narrative, memoir, and cultural studies. \u003ci\u003ePlans Deranged by Time\u003c\/i\u003e is a representative selection from many of the twelve poetry collections he has published since the late 1960s. Like his novels and other fiction, many of these poems are anchored in a sense of place—often a very urban one. Filled with aphorism and sharp observation, the poems are spare of line and metaphor; they display a kind of elegant realism: loading docks, back doors of restaurants, doughnut shops with karate schools upstairs. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the introduction, A.F. Moritz places Fetherling in the modern picaresque tradition in the aftermath of Eliot and Pound, highlighting his characteristic speaker as an itinerant cosmopolitan outsider, a kind of \u003ci\u003eflâneur\u003c\/i\u003e , impoverished and keenly observant, writing from a position of “communion-in-isolation.” He contrasts Fetherling’s contemplative intellectualism with that of the public intellectual and highlights this outsider’s fellow-feeling, making the poems indirectly political. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFetherling’s afterword is an anecdote-anchored exploration of what the poet sees as his two central approaches—“the desire to create new codes of hearing” and “writing-to-heal”—and how they are reflected in the collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056189358320,"sku":"9781554586318","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781554586318_p0.jpg?v=1763754607","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781554586318","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}