Kindness Colder Than the Elements
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With wit and cunning, Noble’s poems insinuate themselves into themediations of “we use language” / “language usesus,” into the objectification of “mind,” into thestruggles and cracking of systems. Cuing on Hegel’s epochalrevitalization of the syllogism, they begin withsentences-cum-arguments that issue from an everyman's intentionsand insights, playing into and baiting the “sociality ofreason.” In the cut-up sentences then come the restless,accelerated themes—themes that exist only in their variations,ghosting into one another like the dusk and the dawn in a winging,distended now.
Poet, philosopher, and family farmer, Charles Nobledivides his time between Banff and Nobleford, Alberta. His most recentbooks are Sally O: Selected Poems and Manifesto (Thistledownpress, 2009) and Death Drive Through Gaia Paris (University ofCalgary Press, 2007). He won the Writers Guild of Alberta poetry awardfor his collection Wormwood, Vermouth, Warphistory(Thistledown Press, 1995).