Sentinel and Other Poems (Penguin Poets) - Softcover

Hunter, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140586989 ISBN 13: 9780140586985

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 1993

Synopsis

This collection of poems by the rock lyricist Robert Hunter, best known for his songwriting contributions to legendary performers such as Bob Dylan and The Grateful Dead, features rhythmic, philosophical meditations on art, authenticity, public perception, and love. Hunter delivers his lines with effective and deceptively simple language, the ideal vehicle for his timeless, wide-ranging observations about the relationships we have with our expectations, our mythology, and each other as we navigate modern life and ephemera.

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About the Author

Robert Hunter was born in St. Boniface, Manitoba, Canada. He was the star columnist for the Vancouver Sun, and the founding member of the Greenpeace Foundation, which propelled him on a number of kamikaze missions in the Pacific and the Arctic. He wrote 11 books, including To Save a Whale, Warriors of the Rainbow, and the Governor General's Award-winning Occupied Canada. An irreverent media guru, he was the environmental reporter for the Toronto TV network City, and wrote a column for Eye magazine. He died in 2005.

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Spellbound in a bubble of glass,
warm flesh believes. Garroted,
gelded and clapped in cold irons 
or left to compost in some carefully
calculated public perception, one 
breath without hesitation suffices
to declare that flesh believes
to the roots of its teeth or dies. 
— from "An American Adventure"

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140586989
• ISBN 13: 9780140586985
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160