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- Publisher
- Ekstasis Editions
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2003
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781894800303
- Publish Date
- Jan 2003
- List Price
- $15.95
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Description
Praised by Margaret Avison and John Robert Columbo, George Whipple is a poet's poet. These poems combine literary freedom within a matrix of restraint where the new and traditional, the sacred and profane, the universal and the local join in expressions of graphic joy and lyric praise.
About the author
George Whipple was born in Saint John, NB, grew up in Toronto, and since 1985 has lived in Burnaby, BC, writing, sketching and translating French poetry. He is a member of the League of Canadian Poets; is listed in Contemporary Authors and the Literary Guide to Toronto; was profiled in Canadian Author, and Writer’s Market, (USA), and extensively interviewed for the Antigonish Review. His complete poems, sketches and miscellaneous papers are archived in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. This is his 14th book of poetry.
