The Exile's Papers, Part 4: Just Beneath Your Skin, the Dark Begins - Softcover

Clifford, Wayne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889843902 ISBN 13: 9780889843905

Publisher: Porcupine's Quill, 2016

Synopsis

The Exile's Papers Part Four: Just Beneath Your Skin, the Dark Begins, is the final chapter of Wayne Clifford's sweeping sonnet sequence. In this volume, the exiled poet questions notions of truth, identity and salvation in his quest to describe and interpret a journey through life that is both familiar and unfamiliar.

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About the Author

Wayne Clifford was born in Toronto in 1944. He studied English at University College at the University of Toronto in the mid sixties during which time he came to be associated with a small coterie of students that included Stan Bevington, Dennis Reid, Doris and Judith Cowan, and David Bolduc. Wayne also remembers Tangiers Al, but not clearly, which says something about the time. While still an undergraduate Clifford won numerous Norma Epstein prizes for his poetry and also one E. J. Pratt Award (1967) that he shared with Michael Ondaatje. (One poet kept the money, the other, the medal. In the end each felt equally cheated.)

Stan Bevington had started his fledgling Coach House Press in 1964 and asked Clifford to acquire a few poetry manuscripts suitable for book production of an experimental sort. Wayne secured early work from George Bowering, Victor Coleman, bpNichol and Michael Ondaatje. At the founding meeting of the League of Canadian Poets (1966) Wayne proposed a Writers'

Edition details

• Publisher: Porcupine's Quill
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0889843902
• ISBN 13: 9780889843905
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176