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This is Skuber's first book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The drawing by Caruso depicts four tilted leaves arranged vertically over music staffs with numbers. The leaves are filled with calligraphic text. The poem by Diacono was printed letterpress. The cover was painted by Piero Varroni. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Internet: Stephen Scobie, poet, critic, professor, publisher (b at Carnoustie, Scot 31 Dec 1943). Typical of his 20 volumes of poetry are The Birken Tree (1973), The Rooms We Are (1974), A Grand Memory for Forgetting (1981) and Expecting Rain (1984), Remains (1990) and Slowly into Autumn (1995). In these, open verse forms with extensive historical and literary references commemorate, sometimes nostalgically, people and places. McAlmon's Chinese Opera (1980), dramatic monologues in the voice of Robert McAlmon, won Scobie a Governor General's Award. He published a second dramatic monologue in the voice of an historical figure, The Ballad of Isabel Gunn, in 1987. Dunino explores Scobie's Scots childhood through an intertextual invocation of Rilke's Duino Elegies; Scobie is here playing off George Bowering's earlier rewriting of Rilke in his Kerrisdale Elegies. He collaborates with Douglas Barbour in the sound-poetry duo "re:sounding," and co-authored with him "homolinguistic...

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This work includes an original drawing over a silkscreen text by Tom Phillips. Martine Saillard is the owner of Edition Traversiere. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.