Description
What are these writings? Aphorisms? Cryptic telegrams? The sound of one hand clapping? Perhaps all the above. What John Thompson once wrote of the ghazal seems to apply here, as each disjointed fragment allows the imagination to move by its own nature: discovering an alien design, illogical and without sense -- a chart of the disorderly, against false reason and the tacking together of poor narratives. It is the poem of contrasts, dreams, astonishing leaps.
About the author
Glen Downie worked in cancer care in Vancouver for many years, and now lives in Toronto (and at www.glendownie.com). He served a term as Writer-in-Residence at Dalhousie University's Medical Humanities Program, and won the Toronto Book Award for his 2007 Loyalty Management. He has letterpress-printed signed broadsides by Canadian and American poets (available through www.talltreepress.com). His most recent collection is Democratic Beauties, published by Tightrope Books.
