Mack the Naïf, Or, The Thing We Do Do: Poems

Product Description

Humbly Dasein or being there and super-focused; heavyweight researcher, lifter, and award-winning writer; farm-rooted and globally haunted Charles NOBLE is now often off-farm in Banff at his Saltlik office. A regimen of gym days and measured drinks of wine and coffee underwrites voluminous reading all to power up a style that teases and tilts at this historical material world. Noble s Mac the Naïf is all over the place, spinning an incidental mosaic, where mini-narratives or short hairs are dropped and picked up to ghost then a trans-narrative over a gallimaufry of pop-up poems, living ends against this kindly arc. He says conversation, his aesthetic gambit, can be bait for the research reading I do letting it bite when it s ready. And conversation includes the much maligned anecdote and ordinary observations, and the fish (interview with Steven Ross Smith in Westword).

Review

Of Sally O, his selected poems: What does add up, from the crazy arithmetic of Noble s verse, are witty, arresting descriptions that put Noble in league with Kroetsch...and Purdy... --Kaya Fraser, Canadian Literature

About the Author

Since 1972, Charles Noble has been publishing poetry in a modest Canadian literary underground. A few of the titles that have emerged are Doubt s Boots (U of C Press), hearth wild / post cardiac banff (Thistledown Press), and Wormwood, Vermouth, Warphistory (Thistledown Press), which won the 1996 Writers Guild of Alberta poetry award. Also a dedicated farmer, Noble works the land of his family s farm in Nobleford, Alberta and spends a significant amount of time in Banff.