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Syrinx and Systole

by (author) Matthew Remski

Publisher
Quattro Books
Initial publish date
Oct 2010
Category
General
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781926802480
    Publish Date
    Oct 2010
    List Price
    $4.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781926802077
    Publish Date
    Oct 2010
    List Price
    $16.95

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syrinx and systole is a book of prose poems and lyrical poems which meditate,with a Buddhist orientation, on philosophical and religious themes such as the relationship between human consciousness and the natural world, and between spirituality and anatomy, and the nature of “voice” in birds and in ourselves, and on the power and limits of language.

About the author

Matthew Remski is an ayurvedic therapist and educator who lives in Toronto and on Cortes Island, B.C. in 1993 he founded The Scream in High Park. In 1994 he won the bpnichol Chapbook Award for organon. He has published two novels: Dying for Veronica (1997) and Silver (1998). He is co-founder of Yoga Community Toronto, and co-author, with Scott Petrie, of the ongoing poetical-spiritual-criticism-prayer yoga 2.0. This is his first book length publication in 12 years.

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