Flying Blind - Geddes, Gary
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In 1993, Gary Geddes travelled through Israel and Palestine with the blind poet and scholar John Asfour. The contrast between his friend's ability in the sighted world and his own incompetence in Asfour's Arabic world forced him to ponder the blindness that is so much a part of the human condition. Flying Blind, Geddes's sixteenth poetry collection, meditates on sight and insight, on personal and political loss. The sequence "Flying Blind," which focuses on Geddes's eye-opening trip, is complemented by prize-winning poems celebrating the wintry rockface of eastern Ontario, domestic fortitude in Australia, and fine discriminations of conduct in Japan.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
In 1993, Gary Geddes travelled through Israel and Palestine with the blind poet and scholar John Asfour. The contrast between his friend's ability in the sighted world and his own incompetence in Asfour's Arabic world forced him to ponder the blindness that is so much a part of the human condition. Flying Blind, Geddes's sixteenth poetry collection, meditates on sight and insight, on personal and political loss. The sequence "Flying Blind," which focuses on Geddes's eye-opening trip, is complemented by prize-winning poems celebrating the wintry rockface of eastern Ontario, domestic fortitude in Australia, and fine discriminations of conduct in Japan.
Autorenporträt
Gary Geddes was born in Vancouver and raised mostly on the west coast, where he gill netted, loaded boxcars at BC Sugar Refinery, stocked shelves at Woodwards, worked as a fishing guide at Whytecliffe, taught on Texada Island, and drove a water-taxi. After doing graduate studies at Reading University in England and at the University of Toronto, he embarked on a varied career as a writer, teacher, editor, and publisher. Gary taught for twenty years at Concordia University in Montreal before returning to the west coast, where he was appointed Distinguished Professor of Canadian Culture at Western Washington University (1998-2001) and served as writer-in-residence at Green College, and the Vancouver Public Library. He has written and edited more than thirty-five books of poetry, fiction, drama, non-fiction, criticism, translation and anthologies, including 20th Century Poetry & Poetics and 15 Canadian Poets x 3. His literary awards include the E.J. Pratt Medal and Prize, the National Poetry Prize, the Americas Best Book Award in the 1985 Commonwealth Poetry Competition, National Magazine Gold Award, the Writers Choice Award, Archibald Lampman Prize, the Poetry Book Society Recommendation and the Gabriela Mistral Prize, which he shared with Nobel laureates Octavio Paz and Vaclav Havel and with Rafael Alberti, Ernesto Cardenal, and Mario Benedetti. Gary Geddes lives on Vancouver Island, where he divides his time between Victoria and French Beach.