Too bad : [electronic resource] sketches toward a self-portrait / Robert Kroetsch.

Poems.

On tour -- Afterthought 1 -- Pirate story -- Athought 2 -- Comic book -- Ancestors 1 : om standing upright -- A plain lie 1 -- A plain lie 2 -- Emily Carr as totem -- Keyed in -- Fable -- Ancestors 2 : hoofing it -- Classical mythology -- Rendezous -- Wild turkeys -- Game theory -- Taste -- Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina -- Mirror -- For Kristian, for assurances -- Muse report -- Trade off -- Sage Hill writers at St. Micheal's Retreat, Saskatchewan -- Sharing a pizza -- Cheticamp, Cape Breton Island -- Guesswork -- Just be yourself 1 -- Just be yourself 2 -- Touch -- Winter parka -- Appalachian back roads -- Hot fudge sundae -- Making faces -- Driving to the airport at five am -- Just for once -- Please post -- Arctic miracle -- Night vision -- To Eli Mandel -- CJCA, Alberta, 1935 -- Horse's petunia -- Pembina Highway, Winnepeg -- Dear Mark Twain -- Flooding the rink -- If I were you -- NATION IN PERIL -- Freedom of choice : pie shop -- Anne of Green Gables, found poem -- Wind chill factor -- About the author -- Goose air base, USAF -- I swear I didn't do it -- Bad timing -- Country boy -- Walking backwards in a blizzard -- I saw it with my own eyes -- The word sprang to my lips -- Visit to Japan -- Cottage season -- "no ideas but in things" -- Seduction attempt 1 -- Seduction attempt 2 -- Applause -- Pessoa and his heteronyms -- Cars whizzing by -- Henri Rousseau, "The sleeping gypsy" -- Terracotta Army -- Laundering the poem -- Dear lovelorn -- Horoscope -- Cafe au lait and croissants in Strasbourg -- Daedalus -- The feet of the lone traveller -- Living life as a poet -- Don't blame us -- Victorian Lit, University of Alberta, 1946 -- I try to steal my identity -- Playing card with my sisters -- Nature buff -- My windshield scraper -- Locating story -- Late breaking news -- Making am impression -- Cockadoodledoo -- Watching for signs -- About poetic despair -- About poetic hope -- Grade ten typing lesson : how now brown cow -- The sky is falling -- Everything considered -- Time to spare -- The unnameable -- Motion sickness -- Noosa heads, Queensland -- Risking it.

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