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Houseboat on the Styx

by (author) A.F. Moritz

Publisher
Ekstasis Editions
Initial publish date
Sep 1998
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781896860398
    Publish Date
    Sep 1998
    List Price
    $15.00

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Description

Two lovers find their houseboat stuck in a reedy marsh in Hades. What to do? A work of exhilarating range, Houseboat on the Styx finds in primal human wanderlust the mythological journey of the soul.

About the author

George Fetherling has been writing and publishing for more than forty-five years. One of his most popular works is Travels by Night: A Memoir, which recreates leading personalities and events in the fabled Canadian cultural renaissance of 1965–75. His most recent books are The Sylvia Hotel Poems and the novel Walt Whitman’s Secret, both published in 2010. Fetherling is also a visual artist.

A.F. Moritz has published more than twenty collections of poetry as well as important works of literary history and numerous translations of Latin American verse. A leading figure in the literary life of Canada, he has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a major award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Two of his most recent works have reaffirmed his reputation: Night Street Repairs (2004) received the ReLit Award and The Sentinel (2008) won both the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry magazine and the Griffin Poetry Prize. He teaches at the University of Toronto.

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