What Happened When He Went to the Store for Bread

by Alden Nowlan, Thomas R. Smith

Alden Nowlan is widely considered one of the most brilliant poets to appear in Canada in the past 30 years. In this animated presentation, American poets Robert Bly and Thomas R. Smith aim for the honesty, warmth and wit at the heart of Nowlan's poetry. This performance reveals Nowlan, in his luminous compassion for men and women, as an heir to Whitman for our times. Combining insightful commentary with 25 of Nowlan's best poems, this reading was recorded in 1994 at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota to mark the publication of "What Happened When He Went to the Store for Bread; Poets by Alden Nowlan, published by Nineties Press and edited by Thomas R. Smith, with a foreword by Robert Bly.

Genres: Poetry

144 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1993

Reviews

[Court · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful Canadian poet. Very real, painfully honest, grounded.

[Richard · Rating 4 out of 5]

Overlooked Canadian poet whose work I was very fortunate to learn of. Thanks, Plymouth. Outstanding and thoughtful poems by a poet too long unknown in US and who was taken too early.