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Headframe: 2

by (author) Birk Sproxton

Publisher
Turnstone Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2006
Category
Canadian, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888013170
    Publish Date
    Mar 2006
    List Price
    $15.95

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Description

In Headframe: 2, Birk Sproxton amalgamates stories about history, geography, and family into the mythology of Flin Flon, a mining town on the edge of the Precambrian Shield.
The narrator goes underground. He revisits Beaver Lake and legendary prospectors Kate Rice, David Collins, and Tom Creighton. Cemeteries tell stories about the Frank Slide and about the poet's ancestors. Long poems commemorate his mother and father. Scars on the narrator's body constitute a physical biography.
With wit and wordplay, Headframe: 2 goes beyond the underlying notion of the first volume, borrowed from W.C. Williams, that a man is a city. Birk Sproxton excavates an abundant vein and turns nickel into gold.

About the author

Birk Sproxton writes, edits and teaches from the heart of the prairie greenbelt in Alberta. His writing has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. He previous books include The Hockey Fan Came Riding, Headframe and The Red-Headed Woman with the Black Black Heart, which received the Manitoba Historical Society's award for historical fiction. His editorial hand can be found in Trace: Prairies Writers on Writing and the special Winnipeg in Fiction edition of Prairie Fire magazine.

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