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list price: $10.95
edition:Paperback
category: Poetry
published: May 1992
ISBN:9780921870111
publisher:
Ronsdale Press
Description
In Learning to Breathe, Richard Stevenson wrestles the male muse; he acknowledges rape, emasculation, torture, and attempts to reconcile the lot of the sons of Cain to the roles of prodigal fathers. Each of the lyrics, serial narratives, and dramatic monologues asks the question: How can our children become fathers to the men we are now?
Contributor Notes
Richard Stevenson is the author of four previous full-length collections of poetry: Driving Offensively (Sono Nis Press, 1985), Spitting Up (Third Eye Publications, 1986), Horizontal Hotel (TSAR Publications, 1989), and Whatever It Is Plants Dreams... (Goose Lane Editions, 1990).
A past Editor-in-Chief of Prism International and founding editor of Black Apple, he currently lives with his wife Gepke and two children, Adrian and Marika, in Lethbridge, Alberta, and teaches English, Humanities, Technical and Creative Writing courses for Lethbridge Community College.
