26 — Friday, August 20, 1999 - North Shore News

Poet’s voice lingers despite long leash

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premature end at the age of 40.

In Willy's case, however, posterity
hinges on a bus depat where his entire
life’s work is crammed into a locker.
There is only one person he feels he can
give the key to but he has vet to find his
former teacher’s house. Willy is sucking
up the final dregs of life’s bottle and
time is running out.

The generous heart of the narrator
comes with much more effort in our
species. Willy describes himself as
“Santa’s loyal helper. On the other hand,
a loudmouthed crank, a nihilist, a besot-
ted clown. And the poet? He fell some-
where in between | suppose.” He makes
a dubious choice of Santa Claus as his
role-mode! saint, a saint whose feast was

removed from the official Catholic calen-
dar in 1969 because St. Nick most likely
never existed. But then we don’t choose
our destinies. And while Willy accepts
his, he encounters a myriad of eccentric
“Amerikans” who seem to take excep-
tion — including his mother, a holocaust
survivor.

This book sags a bit in the middle,
weighed down by too many memories
and the day to day trials of'a dog’s life.
The plot zigs and zags like a puppy on a
long teash but when Mr. Bones ends up
in Virginia (Poe's adoptive home, hmm)
events leading to a startling ending are
set in motior.

For a brief time, Mr. Bones lives in
the suburbs with an adoptive family: can-
do Dick, diminutive son Tiger with a
near-lethal bear hug unequal to his size,

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sweet Alice and loving mother Polly. Mr.
Bones and Polly share a penchant for
life’s litle luxuries and as Mr. Bones
(with his head gleefully out the mini-van
window) reminisces on his time with
Willy, he notes that “maybe this was
even beater. For the sad truth was that
poets didn’t drive, and even when they
travelled on foot, they didn’t always
know where they were going.”

Poets-turned-novelists, such as Auster
and Michael Ondaatje, who contributed
a back-cover endorsement to Tinmdbukin,
are in love with the music of language.
Auster, having created a character like
Willy, who is as fond of booze as he is of
the sound of his own voice, is able to be
unfettered. His rants are like the notes in
a strange erratic melody which linger

‘long alter the last page of Timbuktu.

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