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Whatever It Is Plants Dream

by (author) Richard Stevenson

Publisher
Goose Lane Editions
Initial publish date
Jan 1990
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780864921222
    Publish Date
    Jan 1990
    List Price
    $9.95

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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.

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