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Poetry Canadian

Smoking Mirror

by (author) Brian Henderson

Publisher
ECW Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1990
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550221053
    Publish Date
    Jan 1990
    List Price
    $12.00

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Description

A selection of new prose poems based on the imagery of Aztec mythology and folklore, this collection is illustrated with reproductions of Aztec paintings and stone cuttings. A compelling work by the author of The Viridical Book of the Silent Planet, Migration of Light, The Expanding Room, and Paracelcus.

About the author

Brian Henderson is a Governor General’s Award finalist as well as a finalist for the Canadian Authors Association Poetry Award and the author of twelve books including The Alphamiricon, a deck of visual poem cards now online on Ubuweb. His latest is Unidentified Poetic Object from Brick Books, a poem from which won second in the 2017 Vallum poetry prize. Unidentified Poetic Object received a starred Quill & Quire review.Henderson is a co-editor of the Laurier Poetry Series (with Neil Besner, past VP International at the University of Manitoba), has been the Director of Wilfrid Laurier University Press (1999–2016), the President of the Association of Canadian University Presses, the Treasurer of the Association of Canadian Publishers and is on the board of the Access Copyright Foundation, an organization that funds artists and arts groups and organizations with investments seeded by Access Copyright. He is currently the chair of the Grey Highlands Public Library board.

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Editorial Reviews

"Brian Henderson...is a writer of broad and inclusive vision with intellectual energy and the poetic sensibility to give shape to that vision...[H]e puts on a dazzling display." — Canadian Forum

"Luxurious...rich use of metaphor....Henderson is a dedicated poet asking serious questions." — Canadian Literature