Selected Poems
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This volume includes work selected from six of Frank Davey's books of poetry-Weeds, Four Myths for Sam Perry, Griffon, Arcana, King of Swords and The Clallam-as well as the manuscript edition of his War Poems.
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Born in Vancouver, Frank Davey attended the University of British Columbia where he was a co-founder of the avant-garde poetry magazine TISH. Since 1963, he has been the editor-publisher of the poetics journal Open Letter. In addition, he co-founded the world's first on-line literary magazine, SwiftCurrent, in 1984. Davey writes with a unique panache as he examines with humour and irony the ambiguous play of signs in contemporary culture, the popular stories that lie behind it and the struggles between different identity-based groups in our globalizing society-racial, regional, gender-based, ethnic, economic-that drive this play.