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Winner of the Governor-General’s Award in 1979. Born in Montreal in 1947, Robert Melancon studied at the University de Montreal and in Tours where he wrote his doctorate on French baroque poetry. He has published three books of poems including Inscriptions, Peinture aveugle, which won the Governor General’s Award in 1979, and Territoire. Continue reading
This anthology incorporates biographies and work by forty-one of New Mexico’s finest poets representing diverse cultural backgrounds. Foreword by Robert Creeley; Introduction; Lucile Adler; Jimmy Santiago Baca; Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge; John Brandi; Alvaro Cardona-Hine; Ana Castillo; Denise Chavez; Judson Crews; Victor Di Suvero; Martin Edmunds; Gene Frumkin 6; Greg Glazner; Larry Goodell; Renee Gregorio; Joy Harjo; Gerald Hausman; Judyth Hill; Elizabeth Searle Lamb; Donald Levering; Harold Littlebird; Joan Logghe; Anne MacNaughton; E A Mares; Demetria Martinez; Mary McGinnis; Carol Moldaw; Linda Monacelli-Johnson; Nora Naranjo-Morse; Simon J Ortiz; V B Price; Leroy Quintana; Margaret Randall; Leo Romero; Mariam Sagan; Jim Sagel; Rebecca Seiferle; Joseph Somoza; Arthur Sze; Anne Valley-Fox; Keith Wilson; Roger Zelazny. Continue reading
One of the literary hats Stephen Scobie wears is that of the traditional teller of tales. In this series of poems he grapples with the effects of wide travel, poetic forbears (Rilke in particular), and his Scottish ancestry. Dunino is a tale told with all the powers of a seasoned poet. Continue reading
These are measured, crafted poems with a vernacular edge–an earthiness–that reflect Peter Richardson’s laconic worldly look at people, places, and things. Although this is his first book, Richardson’s work has been published in Descant, The Malahat Review, Poetry (Chicago), Prism International, Queen’s Quarterly, Southern Humanities Review, Wascana Review and many other publications. Continue reading
While Carmine Starnino’s debut covers much ground — translations of Italian poets he has admired, monologues by characters in the New Testament, meditations on Caravaggio’s religious paintings — it is his examination of his immigrant family that demands the most admiration. “The New World” offers the reader an unforgettable glimpse of one poet’s cultural inheritance. Continue reading
Nothing…is more difficult than comic or light verse. In The Mulberry Men Solway largely succeeds in this demanding and delicate genre. — Canadian Literature Continue reading
This exciting collection of contemporary Canadian poetry includes work by Don Coles, Rhea Tregebov, Ann Diamond, Marie-Claire Blais, Peter Dale Scott, David Solway, Jan Conn, Robert Allen, Doug Beardsley, Arthur Clark, William Furey, Michel Garneau, Susan Glickman, Gerald Godin, Carla Hartsfield, Elisabeth Harvor, Charlotte Hussey, Ross Leckie, Laura Lush, Errol McDonald, Muhammad al-Maghut, Robert Melancon, John Reibetanz, Richard Sanger, Stephen Scobie, Ricardo Sternberg and George Ellenbogen. Continue reading
Histories is an eclectic and unusual poetry debut from the author of the creative non-fiction work Wardlife: The Apprenticeship of a Young Writer as a Hospital Clerk published to acclaim in 1999. From the medical history to family history, Histories reveals a poet of multiple personas and postures. Continue reading
Bliss Pig and Other Poems represents the formidable writing talents of two members of the popular trio of poets known as Uncritical Mass. Toronto’s Linda Stitt has published five volumes of poetry. Charlene Jones, a professor of English, has been published in several Canadian and American journals. Together they read to enthusiastic audiences across Canada. Continue reading
Challenging modern America’s perspective on love history, and race relations, these poems deviate from such techniques as free verse and abstraction to concentrate on structured forms such as odes and Italian sonnets. The unifying idea of the book also comes from the classics: the poet views black artists as Prometheus figures, giving fire and inspiration to American culture even when they are barely acknowledged. The poetry’s message, however, is gritty and emotional — and sometimes deliberately sentimental — as it pits the joys of love, romance, and racial pride against the sorrows of slavery and segregation. Continue reading