MALL, Poetry by Anne Swannell (1st Ed. SIGNED)

Author: Anne Swannell. Published by Rowan Books, Edmonton, Alberta, 1993, 1st Edition. RARE: FLAT SIGNED by the Author. Printed in Canada by Jasper Printing Group. Almost New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inch, 68 pages.  

MALL, Poetry by Anne Swannell, "considers the West Edmonton Mall, which is the second-largest mall in North America, with more than 800 stores, services, and attractions, the perfect place to write poems about...a massive shopping mall? And why not?

Mall turns non-place into place using several different strategies. One is to bring the history of Edmonton into focus, as in the book’s first poem, “Lessons in Cartography,” which presents five vignettes about that city: four about transportation (trains and airplanes), and the last one about oil, Gretzky, and the Mall. Another strategy involves considering what’s missing from the Mall: crime, unhoused people, winter weather, broken glass and cigarette butts. Yet another is looking at what is there: bronze and plaster statues, rides, video games, the poor people who visit to avoid the heat or the cold....So, why can’t the West Edmonton Mall be a subject fit for poetry? Why can’t anything? Why should poets limit themselves to serious subjects? Swannell’s Mall answers those questions. Maybe it was ahead of its time, or at least ahead of its reviewer." -Written by Ken Wilson, author of Walking the Bypass.

1st Edition & Signed by Author  

ISBN: 9781895836034  

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