Ribstones
- Publisher
- Ekstasis Editions
- Initial publish date
- Sep 1996
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781896860008
- Publish Date
- Sep 1996
- List Price
- $12.95
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Description
In Ribstones history is mud and bone. The poems represent a quest for the spirit of the forgotten ones of history and prehistory, their paths traced in grass bent by the wind and in the unseen stones underfoot.
About the author
George Melnyk is an associate professor of Canadian studies and film studies in the Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary. He is a cultural historian who specializes in Canadian cinema. Among his film publications are One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema (2004) and Great Canadian Film Directors (2007). Most recently he has published The Young, the Restless, and the Dead: Interviews with Canadian Filmmakers (2008) in the Film and Media Studies series at WLU Press.