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Out of Place

Out of Place

Ann Mandel
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Like many prairie-born people, Eli Mandel went far from Saskatchewan in search of challenge and variety. More than almost any other figure he has managed to combine an impressive academic career with continued growth as a poet. An Idiot Joy won the Governor General?s Award in 1967 and Mandel?s reputation has grown since then with the meticulous and unnerving poetry found in books such as Crusoe and Stony Plain. At the same time, as Professor of Humanities at York University, he has pioneered in the creation of complex and stimulating courses in Canadian studies, bringing to them both a wide-ranging analysis of world literature and history and a profound sense of place.

In Out of Place he returns to Saskatchewan, turns to the Estevan and Hoffer of his youth, and his birth, in order to create a work that is as challenging and varied and simple as that place in which he was rooted. For the title is ambiguous, deliberately so. He must admit that he is himself out of place, not fully at home here, ?whatever has been hidden here / remains of speech / the town lives / in its syntax we are ghosts?; but at the same time, as poet, he acknowledges that it is only out of a deep sense of place that we find out who we are, what we are becoming:

in the book of years
berner told me could be found
your own name exactly spelled
his own his sons the russian
names of villages and jews

twelve strangled ducklings
laughter in bed

you were written

I read the land for records now
Language
English
Pages
77
Format
Paperback

Out of Place

Ann Mandel
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Like many prairie-born people, Eli Mandel went far from Saskatchewan in search of challenge and variety. More than almost any other figure he has managed to combine an impressive academic career with continued growth as a poet. An Idiot Joy won the Governor General?s Award in 1967 and Mandel?s reputation has grown since then with the meticulous and unnerving poetry found in books such as Crusoe and Stony Plain. At the same time, as Professor of Humanities at York University, he has pioneered in the creation of complex and stimulating courses in Canadian studies, bringing to them both a wide-ranging analysis of world literature and history and a profound sense of place.

In Out of Place he returns to Saskatchewan, turns to the Estevan and Hoffer of his youth, and his birth, in order to create a work that is as challenging and varied and simple as that place in which he was rooted. For the title is ambiguous, deliberately so. He must admit that he is himself out of place, not fully at home here, ?whatever has been hidden here / remains of speech / the town lives / in its syntax we are ghosts?; but at the same time, as poet, he acknowledges that it is only out of a deep sense of place that we find out who we are, what we are becoming:

in the book of years
berner told me could be found
your own name exactly spelled
his own his sons the russian
names of villages and jews

twelve strangled ducklings
laughter in bed

you were written

I read the land for records now
Language
English
Pages
77
Format
Paperback

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