
Selected Poems
Robert Bringhurst(Author)
Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Published on 16. January 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
270 pages
978-1-55659-391-8 (ISBN)
Description
Selected Poems reaches across Robert Bringhurst's rich and varied oeuvre, including old works and new. As a poet, typographer, and lifelong student of Native American languages and oral literatures, Bringhurst balances the physical art of spoken language and the "salvageable wisdom" of pre-Columbian America that breathes fresh with every reading. A man who claims no title and no address, Bringhurst has shaped our world through his work in typography, linguistic anthropology, and--most quietly and profoundly--in poetry.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
360 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55659-391-8 (9781556593918)
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Robert Bringhurst: Robert Bringhurst is a poet, typographer, and lifelong student of Navajo, Haida, and Cree oral literatures. In the 1960s he studied linguistics under Noam Chomsky at MIT, and has since become one of Canada's most respected poets and cultural historians. A professor and translator of Arabic and Greek, Bringhurst has been a Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry, writer-in-residence at the University of Edinburgh, and winner of the prestigious Edward Sapir Prize in Native American linguistics. He lives on Quadra Island, off the coast of British Columbia.