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Poetry Canadian

Cavatinas for Long Nights

by (author) Jim Christy

Publisher
Ekstasis Editions
Initial publish date
Oct 2001
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781896860947
    Publish Date
    Oct 2001
    List Price
    $20.00

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Description

These short songs for long nights are the jazz riffs of a global wanderer. The poems are incantations to shattered memories and a dream of romance that is sometimes faded, sometimes bright.

About the author

Always in search of original characters and experiences, Jim Christy is a literary vagabond with few peers. He was once described by George Woodcock as “one of the last unpurged North American anarchistic romantics.” His publisher has called him a hip Indiana Jones; one reviewer credited him with a “Gary Cooper-like presence.” His buddies have included hobos, jazz musicians, boxers, and non-academic writers such as Charles Bukowski, Peter Trower and Joe Ferone. “I never dismiss another’s story out of hand,” he writes, “no matter what it’s about or how outrageous it may seem.” Christy’s often wry reminiscences of his travels, trysts and trials are fuelled by a hard-won pride. A gardener, a sculptor and a spoken word performer with a jazz/blues ensemble, Christy has been seen in film and television productions, usually in non-speaking roles as a thug or a gangster.

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