Hot Flashes
- Publisher
- Ekstasis Editions
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2001
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781896860961
- Publish Date
- Sep 2001
- List Price
- $14.95
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Description
In Hot Flashes Richard Stevenson uses the Japanese haiku form to illuminate his experience of living and teaching in Africa. Quick images following one after another distil the essence of the unique and sometimes peculiar African world.
About the author
Richard Stevenson was born in 1952 in Victoria, British Columbia. A prolific writer, Richard has published twelve collections of poetry (including Why Were All the Werewolves Men? (Thistledown, 1994), and Nothing Definite Yeti (Ekstasis Editions, 1999)) and four poetry chapbooks. Richard won the 1994 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for From the Mouths of Angels (Ekstasis, 1993). He is also the co-founder of Naked Ear, a poetry-jazz performance ensemble.
