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Poetry Canadian

Configurations at Midnight

by (author) Ralph Gustafson

Publisher
ECW Press
Initial publish date
Dec 1992
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550221732
    Publish Date
    Dec 1992
    List Price
    $12.00

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“Gustafson is one of those rare poets whose every book is better than the last.” “Quill & Quire

?A learned mind in the best sense of the term, teeming with an allusive awareness of history, art, music and literature wittily defining a world always dying.” “Toronto Star

?An exquisitely gracious sensibility.” “Books in Canada

?Resoundingly upbeat...Witty and erudite, full of allusions to music, art, history and literature, this collection crackles with energy.” “Montreal Gazette

About the author

In a writing career that spanned sixty years Ralph Gustafson published many volumes of poetry and edited the influential Penguin Book of Canadian Verse. Fire on Stone (1974) won the Governor-General's Award for Poetry and in 1997 he posthumously received the QSPELL A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry for Visions Fugitive.

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