Ink on Paper - Softcover

Cran, Brad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889712816 ISBN 13: 9780889712812

Publisher: Nightwood Editions, 2013

Synopsis

Brad Cran's highly anticipated second book of poetry, Ink on Paper, is a compelling collection of political poems that seek to elucidate our relationships with our surroundings as well as those who surround us. Cran, former Poet Laureate for the City of Vancouver, masterfully constructs images held in contradictory tension, as in his civic poem, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Grey Whale and Ending with a Line from Rilke":

 And there you were
 below the mountains
 in the heart of the city
 gazing at the grey whale.
 You must change your life.

Cran's poems are a fresh, provocative examination of urban culture, the natural world and issues of social justice, told with keen awareness and a gritty poetic precision.

About this title

About the Author

Brad Cran is a writer and social entrepreneur who served as Poet Laureate for the City of Vancouver from April 2009 until October of 2011. Cran published his first book, The Good Life, in 2001 and his most recent book, Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (with Gillian Jerome), won the City of Vancouver Book Award and has raised over $60,000 for marginalized people in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. He is currently finishing his second book of non-fiction The Truth about Ronald Reagan: How Movies Changed the World.

Edition details

• Publisher: Nightwood Editions
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0889712816
• ISBN 13: 9780889712812
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96