{"product_id":"old-hat-9780889712966","title":"Old Hat","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Rob Winger\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Nightwood Editions\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Nightwood Editions\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Canadian - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOld Hat\u003c\/i\u003e is the third book of poetry and first collection of occasional poems by the author of the 2007 Globe 100 book, \u003ci\u003eMuybridge's Horse\u003c\/i\u003e: Governor General and Trillium Awards nominee, Rob Winger. Driven by an attempt to understand how to reorder common experience, the book's transitional sections - Set, Re\/Set, and Lect - all intertwine and overlap, thematically and intuitively linked by the extensive range and depth of Winger's poetics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile each section is discrete, each is also in harmony with its neighbours. The Re\/set sections revive clichés of Canadian lyricism--landscape and maple syrup, Icarus falling and human-rights rhetoric, war and ancestral migration, death, love, and disease--not only to critique but also to validate the experiential urgency of poetic reflection, while the Set sections harness Winger's vernacular voice in a\u2028struggle for self-definition against powerfully pedestrian political and economic systems. They signed Yu Darvish without seeing his fork, Winger writes in one poem. They signed their books without looking up at us.\/ They gave you fries with that without even asking. Such a balance of agency and inaction is also central in \u003ci\u003eOld Hat\u003c\/i\u003e's final section, Lect, a simmering simulation of grad-school jargon, sailor slang, plumbing terminology, and GPS directives that exposes the limitations of esoteric linguistic ontologies by moving from general observations to those of increasingly expert understanding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile rich with advice to Keep your personal longings with you at all times, \u003ci\u003eOld Hat\u003c\/i\u003e is also generous, incisive, boisterous, and funny, a book about place, but also about understanding and situation. Spoken through clichés, vernacular, and jargon, \u003ci\u003eOld Hat\u003c\/i\u003e is just as familiar as it is odd, just as comforting as disquieting, an exceptional meditation on what it means to think about writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nightwood Editions","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47999664390295,"sku":"9780889712966","price":907.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780889712966.webp?v=1783601358","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/old-hat-9780889712966","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}