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edition:Paperback
category: Literary Criticism
published: Jun 2010
ISBN:9781554200528
publisher: New Star Books

Robin Blaser

by Stan Persky & Brian Fawcett

tagged: canadian, poetry, african
Description

Divided into two parts, Robin Blaser consists of two essays by people who knew Blaser intimately, as a life-long friend, a mentor, and intellectual influence. In part one, award-winning author Stan Persky offers a cohesive guide to reading Robin Blaser's poetry and the ways in which Blaser's work was "an attempted rescue or defense of poetry". In part two, Brian Fawcett discusses how Blaser inspired and guided him in his formative years as a writer at the newly-opened Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC. From the authors' recollections, we are given a glimpse into the personal and professional relationships that developed between Persky, Fawcett, Robin Blaser, Jack Spicer, and many of the other poets associated with the "San Francisco renaissance" and the New American Poetry. At once a memoir and a reader, Robin Blaser is also an illustrated account of the remarkable life of the poet, with dozens of previously unpublished photographs included. In 2007, Robin Blaser was awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize. Robin Blaser celebrates the poet, the academic, and the person. Blaser died in spring 2009.

About the Authors
Stan Persky is the author of more than a dozen books, including the BC Book Prize-winning The Short Version. He divides his time between Vancouver and Berlin.

Brian Fawcett is the author of more than twenty books. He is a past editor of Books in Canada, a former columnist for the Globe and Mail, has written articles and reviews for most of Canada’s major newspapers and magazines, and is a founding editor of the internationally followed Internet news service, www.dooneyscafe.com. Fawcett was born and raised in Prince George, B.C. and now lives in Toronto.

Contributor Notes

Stan Persky is the author of more than a dozen books, including Topic Sentence, Buddy's: A Meditation on Desire, and The Short Version, which won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 2006. He teaches philosophy at Capilano University and lives in Berlin and Vancouver.

Brian Fawcett is author of numerous books, including Cambodia: A Book for People Who Think Television Is Too Slow, Public Eye, Gender Wars, Local Matters, Virtual Clearcut, and, most recently Human Happiness. He lives in Toronto anyway.

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