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Poetry Canadian

Prez: Homage to Lester Young

by (author) Jaime Reid

Publisher
Oolichan Books
Initial publish date
Apr 2010
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780889821293
    Publish Date
    Apr 2010
    List Price
    $14.95

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Jamie Reid, was one of the five original editors of TISH, the Vancouver poetry newsletter that changed the face of Canadian poetry in the early 1960s. He is the author of four volumes of poetry, beginning with The Man Whose Path Was on Fire, in 1969. Prez was written in 1987 after Reid was absent for nearly two decades from publishing poetry while engaged in revolutionary political activism. It was followed by Mad Boys in 1997, and then by I. Another. The Space Between in 2004.