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Books by Charles S. NobleFollow links for more details and/or for online purchase  Sally
OSelected Poems and Manifesto 5.5" x 8.5" Thistledown Press 2009 ISBN: 978-1-897235-68-3 Sally O is Charles Noble's first retrospective of incomparable printed literary expeditions, from 1972–2007. A perfectionist, a highly-focused meditative reader and writer, Charles hones his collection with further research and editing until printing press presses him to finalize title. His sensitivity to his readers who have not had the luxury of time and mental discipline to read and ponder with his depth and breadth shows in his manifesto of a heavily-footnoted afterword, two appendices and "An Open Letter to Alberta Views", as always fuelling thought at a level that he enlightens and pushes his readers to. This is Noble at his best, yet I'm certain the best is yet to come when he switches his focus, targeting his next literary project. It is a long awaited collection by his readers, a must-have for anyone who wants to record an original, one of the best "post-contemporary" writers. "Taking its times", this collection will not be lost on a well-read future.  Death
Drivethrough Gaia Paris 4.5" x' 7" U of C Press 2007 ISBN: 978-155238-226-4 Charles reins in tight haiku letting loose logopoeic (Ezra Pound's term) poetry: “splendid rigour” poems and witty riddles, solved by “lifetime” insights. His dialectical poetry holes up in the local, in the unhappy interferences, recognizing a curled-up-but-everywhere world of media and markets, à la Frederic Jameson. His haikus, "shock of the naïve", turn to a middle ground in Aristotle's sense of difficult target, a meta-linguistic wrestling, a death drive (not death wish), arcing freely over a human life span — think architecture — and in the “pleated/ crossword”, “make[s]/ good// a/ bit/ of/ bad/ infinity” (p. 57), no expenses, save for that toehold, earth, as Charles would have it. Travel here and react to a landscape of philosophy.  Doubt's bootsEven Doubt's Shadow 4.5" x 7" U of C Press 2003 ISBN: 1552381005 In Doubt’s Boots metaphor rotates and becomes metonymy that moves, making for the unknown. The poem turns “abstract” language — seen through, then as suspect, by the overlooking image — into deliberate effrontery. Conventional narrative breaks out, then breaks off—and in the shadows language heads out everywhere. Here is the foreword to this work. (For PDF support, click here.) FFWD Review by Lachlan MacKintosh  hearth wild / post cardiac banff
Thistledown Press 2001 ISBN: 1894345290 Robert Kroetsch says, "Hearth Wild is brilliantly a poem, a document, an autobiography, a bejesus joy."
 Following the Ploughrecovering the rural poems and stories on the land selected and edited by John B. Lee Charles is one of the contributing writers:
Black Moss Press
2000  Wormwood,
Vermouth, Warphistory poems 94 p. Thistledown Press 1995 ISBN: 1895449367 Richard Stevenson remarks, "He's one of our best poets: it's long past time to acknowledge that." Richard remarks on this poet's ability to command tone and diction, "he can shift gears, not only mid-sentence or mid-line, but often, and to the very witty and clever effect, mid-syllable — without excluding or bamboozling his reader. He can be devastatingly funny, while he does his Heidegger Diddle mid-swath on the tractor with CBC coming in loud and clear on the headphones. He redeems the pun and re-animates ordinary speech in so many directions at once it is hard to keep up with him." Let's Hear It For Them poems 63 p. ; 22 cm. Thistledown Press 1990 ISBN: 0920633749 Afternoon Starlight Thistledown Press 1984 ISBN: 0920066909 Banff/breaking poems 62 p. ; 22 cm. Longspoon Press, Dept. English, Univ. of Alberta Edmonton, AB 1984 ISBN: 0919285244 Haywire Rainbow: Poems Porcepic 1978 Erin, ON ISBN: 0888781601 Three Charles Noble, J. O. Thompson [and] Jon Whyte. Introduction by Eli Mandel. Banff, AB, Summerthought 1973 Unfounded Knowledge Anak Press 1972 |
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