The Birdhouse, Or
- Publisher
- Ekstasis Editions
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2002
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781894800112
- Publish Date
- Oct 2002
- List Price
- $16.95
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Description
By turns serious and playful, irreverent and tough-minded, the poems in this collection combine plain-speaking eloquence and a sparkling linguistic energy. The title poem is a quiet meditation on the nature of love and fatherhood, with digressions on belly-buttons and the like that are both hilarious and harrowing.
About the author
Jamie Dopp is an associate professor of Canadian literature at the University of Victoria. He is the author of two novels, three collections of poetry, and many articles and reviews on Canadian and popular subjects. He has co-edited three collections of essays on sports literature: Now is the Winter: Thinking about Hockey with Richard Harrison; and Writing the Body in Motion: A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature and Not Hockey: Critical Essays on Canada’s Other Sport Literature with Angie Abdou.