Whatever It Is Plants Dream
- Publisher
- Goose Lane Editions
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1990
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780864921222
- Publish Date
- Jan 1990
- List Price
- $9.95
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Where to buy it
Out of print
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Description
In this delightful collection of object poems, Richard Stevenson reads the "braille of stem and leaf," playfully re-examining the nomenclature given to plants and the layers of metaphor used to describe them.
About the author
Richard Stevenson was born in 1952 in Victoria, British Columbia. A prolific writer, Richard has published twelve collections of poetry (including Why Were All the Werewolves Men? (Thistledown, 1994), and Nothing Definite Yeti (Ekstasis Editions, 1999)) and four poetry chapbooks. Richard won the 1994 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for From the Mouths of Angels (Ekstasis, 1993). He is also the co-founder of Naked Ear, a poetry-jazz performance ensemble.
