Toward the Rising Sun covers more than fifteen years of poetic writing by Robert Giroux. Included in this collection are Voice Gymnastics (2001), Toward the Rising Sun (2002), And Yet (2010), and Standing on Objects (2014). Giroux deliberately flirts with narrative prose, toys with sentence rhythms and breaks, and adheres to poetic syntax and voice. This attraction for story-telling and discourse is Robert Giroux’s response to Stéphane Mallarmé’s verse crisis.

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Antonio D'Alfonso was born in Montreal. He studied at Loyola College from 1970 to 1975, where he got his B.A. in Communication Arts. Later on he went to Université de Montréal to complete his Master's Science Degree in Communication Studies, specializing in Semiology; his thesis was on Mouchette, a film by Robert Bresson. In 1978 he founded Guernica Editions, where he edited over 450 books by authors from around the world. In 1982 along with three other writers, he founds the trilingual magazine, Vice Versa. In 1986, along with three other writers, he founded the Association of Italian-Canadian writers. He has taught at Université of Montréal, Continuing Studies at University of Toronto, University of Californa, in San Diego. He is presently a writer in residence at McGill University (French language and literature department).

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