John Reibetanz

Broschiertes Buch

Transformations

Beschreibung

Wit and humour crackle through Transformations, John Reibetanz's seventh poetry collection. Carefully crafting extraordinary tales from ordinary scenes -- Greek gods riding the bus, men turning into beasts -- Reibetanz offers poems redolent with warmth and affection. In the opening section of the book he effortlessly evokes the ethereal world of Greek myth to explore the confusion of contemporary life, then turns his thoughts to the intimacy of birth, family, and friendship. Ranging in topic from the blues of Robert Johnson to "the tiny mice who live backstage in my computer," Reibetanz sees the world clearly as he turns it upside down and right side up again to surprise and delight the reader with his poetic "transformations."

Autor

John Reibetanz was born in New York City, and grew up in the eastern United States and Canada. He put himself through university by working at numerous non-poetic jobs, and is probably the only member of the League of Canadian Poets to have belonged to the Amalgamated Meatcutters Union. A finalist for both the National Magazine Awards (Canada) and the National Poetry Competition (United States), he has given readings of his poetry in most major cities in North America. His poems have appeared in such magazines as Poetry (Chicago), the Paris Review, Canadian Literature, the Malahat Review , the Fiddlehead, the Southern Review, and Quarry. His fifth collection, Mining for Sun (Brick Books, 2000), was shortlisted for the ReLit Poetry Award; his sixth, Near Relations, was published by McClelland and Stewart in 2005. In 2003 he was awarded First Prize in the international Petra Kenney Poetry Competition. John Reibetanz lives in Toronto with his wife and three children, and he teaches at Victoria College, University of Toronto, where he received the first Victoria University Teaching Award. In addition to poetry, he has written essays on Elizabethan drama and on modern and contemporary poetry, as well as a book on King Lear and a book of translations of modern German poetry. When he is not writing or teaching, he bicycles, kayaks, reads local history, and listens passionately to 1930s jazz.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Goose Lane Editions
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 141mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 186g
• ISBN-13: 9780864924582
• ISBN-10: 0864924585
• Artikelnr.: 22114972