Alchemy of the Body and Other Poems (Essential Poets (Paperback Ecco)) (Essential Poets Series) - Softcover

Garcia, Juan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0919349250 ISBN 13: 9780919349254

Publisher: Guernica Editions,Canada, 1983

Synopsis

Poems by Juan Garcia.

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About the Author

Born in Montreal in 1951 to English and French Canadian parents, MARC PLOURDE spoke mostly English as a child at home, but was schooled in French. His first poems were written and published in French before he was seventeen, but thereafter he began writing in English, strongly influenced by Alden Nowlan and others (at nineteen he made a solo pilgrimage to New Brunswick specifically to meet Nowlan.) Traces of a French sensibility nevertheless colour his poems, which are preoccupied with people and the places they inhabit. Plourde's gifts were recognized early on: a first collection of poems, Touchings, was published by Fred Cogswell's Fiddlehead Poetry Books in 1970, followed by The White Magnet (poems, stories, and a one-act play) with D.C. Books in 1973, and a collection of stories, The Spark Plug Thief, in 1976. Thereafter the poet fell silent for two decades, turning instead to translating Quebecois writers, notably Gaston Miron, whose selected poems, Embers and Earth, he co-tran

Edition details

• Publisher: Guernica Editions,Canada
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0919349250
• ISBN 13: 9780919349254
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 48