Flying Coffins
- Publisher
- Ekstasis Editions
- Initial publish date
- Sep 1994
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780921215738
- Publish Date
- Sep 1994
- List Price
- $12.95
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Description
Flying Coffins reveals the true Africa in all its unfamiliar ordinariness. The poems explore in clear and witty language the cultural boundaries through which experiences are perceived and transformed with sometimes hilarious results.
About the author
Richard Stevenson was born in 1952 in Victoria, British Columbia. A prolific writer, Richard has published twelve collections of poetry (including Why Were All the Werewolves Men? (Thistledown, 1994), and Nothing Definite Yeti (Ekstasis Editions, 1999)) and four poetry chapbooks. Richard won the 1994 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for From the Mouths of Angels (Ekstasis, 1993). He is also the co-founder of Naked Ear, a poetry-jazz performance ensemble.