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Poetry Canadian

Sweet Betsy from Pike

by (author) Stan Rogal

Publisher
Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd.
Initial publish date
Oct 1992
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780919897281
    Publish Date
    Oct 1992
    List Price
    $15.00

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Out of print

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Description

Sweet Betsy from Pike is Stan Rogal's first book of poetry. "It's as though Stan Rogal had snuck up on a whole regiment of stock cultural myths and assumption, armed only with folksong, imaginative muscle, abundant mother wist, and a wicket talent for subversive wordplay: it's the surprise that enlivens; the trickster's art." - Don McKay

About the author

Born in Vancouver, Stan Rogal now lives in Toronto. He ran the popular Idler Pub Reading Series for ten years, was co-creator of Bald Ego Theatre, and is now the artistic director of Bulletproof Theatre. He is the author of the novel, The Long Drive Home (Insomniac, 1999), and numerous poetry collections, including Geometry of the Odd, (Wolsak & Wynn, 1999), In Search of the Emerald City (Seraphim, 2004) and Fabulous Freaks (Wolsak & Wynn, 2005). Lines of Embarkation is Stan's fifth book of poetry.

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