A Cloud Edifice
- Publisher
- Ekstasis Editions
- Initial publish date
- Sep 1990
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780921215066
- Publish Date
- Sep 1990
- List Price
- $12.95
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Description
The poems in A Cloud Edifice attempt to define the line between land and sea, life and death, star and earth, song and silence. In these lyrics the poet contemplates the task of breathing a word or a world into being.
About the author
Derek Robinson is a poet of exceptional sensitivity and depth. Born in Vancouver, he moved to Victoria in 1980. His first book Child was published in 1975, followed by Twelve Poems. His work has appeared in a number of magazines. He published The Inner Shore in 1985 (a collaboration with Miles Lowry and Richard Olafson), A Cloud Edifice and most recently Still in the Dreamtime, all with Ekstasis Editions. He lives in Victoria, BC.