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Cruise Control
A Theogony
By Ken Howe
AVAILABLE
0-88971-186-0
Nightwood Editions
5.25 x 7.5
· 128 pages
Paperback
· $15.95
September 2002
From Ken Howe, winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry, Cruise Control is an original, spirited and unforgettable homebrew concocted from his limitless thirst for philosophy and literature and his vigorous love of language.
Praise for Howe's previous work:
In his first collection of poetry, Household Hints for the End of Time, Regina poet Ken Howe explores a wide range of subjects — from the inherent meaning of a refrigerator to the resonances and implications of love and music … Howe's poetry sparkles. These playfully descriptive vignettes about "ordinary" subjects are reminiscent of the weird imaginings of Douglas Adams and the tongue-in-cheek language of Gertrude Stein … the overall playfulness and sophisticated sense of rhythm, timing, and phrasing make the collection a strong first showing.
—Heather Fitzgerald, Quill and Quire
Over and over in this manuscript, the ordinary (snow and Stanfield's [underwear]) is alchemized into poetry.
—Sue Goyette
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