Sign-In
Cart
Collected Poems
Hardcover
Currently unavailable to order
Please enter your email and a message will be sent to you when this product becomes available on our website.
ISBN13: 9781998526703
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Pages: 464
Language: English
This spellbinding collection forms an essential document of Robert Bringhurst's long career as one of Canada's most adventurous artists and thinkers.
Over a career of more than half a century, Robert Bringhurst has become widely renowned as a polymath driven by intense curiosity and vast erudition. The American-born, BC-based artist and scholar has brought a background in linguistics, physics, architecture and comparative literature to bear on his groundbreaking work as an essayist, critic, historian, translator, typographer and poet.
Indeed, there is arguably no more powerful testament to Bringhurst's deeply eclectic vision than this captivating collection, offering the full scope of his poetry, from the late '60s to the present day. Here, modernist elements in early works are gradually refined into an approach that bypasses the self-exploration prevalent in contemporary poetry, and instead forms a framework to accommodate influences as historically and culturally diverse as ancient Greek and Chinese verse, the Bible and the stories of West Coast Indigenous Peoples, creating a timeless, borderless interplay. Even Bringhurst's acclaimed contributions to the field of typography--culminating in his now classic 1992 book The Elements of Typographic Style--is represented in the global array of type interspersed here, from Hellenic to Hebrew and Chinese.
With their striking blend of lyric energy, formal daring and precision, the works in this long-awaited collection gather into a kind of career-spanning dialogue, reflecting one of Canada's most remarkable creative minds.
Also from
Bringhurst, Robert
Also in
General Poetry
Dante's Vita Nuova, New Edition: A Translation and an Essay
Alighieri, Dante
Pitavy, Francois
Paperback
Sounding the Seasons Enlarged Edition: One Hundred and Ten Sonnets for the Christian Year
Guite, Malcolm
Paperback
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Lao Tzu
Paperback
They Bloom Because of You: Poems on the Infinite Love, Growth, and Magic of Motherhood
Urlichs, Jessica
Paperback
This Is the Main Event: Discovering the Life You Long for in the Life You Have
Smith, Joshua Luke
Hardcover
Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement
Plath, Sylvia
Paperback