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This volume includes work selected from six of Frank Davey’s books of poetry Weeds, Four Myths for Sam Perry, Griffon, Arcana, King of Swords and The Clallam as well as the manuscript edition of his War Poems.
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Frank Davey
Born in Vancouver, Frank Davey attended the University of British Columbia where he was a co-founder of the avant-garde poetry magazine TISH. Since 1963, he has been the editor-publisher of the poetics journal Open Letter. In addition, he co-founded the world’s first on-line literary magazine, SwiftCurrent, in 1984. Davey writes with a unique panache as he examines with humour and irony the ambiguous play of signs in contemporary culture, the popular stories that lie behind it and the struggles between different identity-based groups in our globalizing society racial, regional, gender-based, ethnic, economic that drive this play.
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Born in Vancouver, Frank Davey attended the University of British Columbia where he was a co-founder of the avant-garde poetry magazine TISH. Since 1963, he has been the editor-publisher of the poetics journal Open Letter. In addition, he co-founded the world’s first on-line literary magazine, SwiftCurrent, in 1984. Davey writes with a unique panache as he examines with humour and irony the ambiguous play of signs in contemporary culture, the popular stories that lie behind it and the struggles between different identity-based groups in our globalizing society racial, regional, gender-based, ethnic, economic that drive this play.
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- PublisherTalonbooks
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 088922174X
- ISBN 13 9780889221741
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages112
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