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Poetry Canadian

There Are Some Men So Unlucky

by (author) Richard Olafson

Publisher
Ekstasis Editions
Initial publish date
Jan 2002
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781894800181
    Publish Date
    Jan 2002
    List Price
    $14.95

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Description

There Are Some Men So Unlucky… offers poems that linger in the consciousness. The voice resonants and engages despite the subtle complexities of the subject matter, which includes metaphysics, love, nature and poetry itself.

About the author

Richard Olafson is an editor, poet, book designer and publisher. A long-time Victoria resident, he is active in many community organizations. Olafson has published a number of books and chapbooks, among them Blood of the Moon, Cloud on My Tongue, and There Are Some So Unlucky They Do Not Even Have Bodies. He attended the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in its second year of operation and was much influenced the following year by taking classes from Warren Tallman at UBC’s English Department. He is also the publisher of the Pacific Rim Review of Books. He lives in Victoria with his family.

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