Noble's work has always engaged, in its own way, with the Western Canadian tradition of poetry as intellectual experiment grounded on local experience.... Death Drive marks a counter-turn in the work of one of Southern Alberta's most distinctive writers.- - Chris Jennings, Department of English, University of Ottawa
In this collection of poetry, Charles Noble further reins in an already tight form - haiku - only to let loose a -logopoeic- poetry. He presents poems of extraordinary rigour and riddles of wit that are solved by -lifetime- insights - a dialectical poetry that still...
Noble's work has always engaged, in its own way, with the Western Canadian tradition of poetry as intellectual experiment grounded on local experience...
With wit and cunning, Noble's poems insinuate themselves into the mediations of ?we use language? / ?language uses us, ? into the objectification of ?mind, ? into the struggles and cracking of systems. Cuing on Hegel's epochal revitalization of the syllogism, they begin with sentences-cum-arguments that issue from an everyman's intentions and insights, playing into and baiting the ?sociality of reason.? 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...
With wit and cunning, Noble's poems insinuate themselves into the mediations of ?we use language? / ?language uses us, ? into the objectification o...
