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Informationen zum Autor Raymond Knister was a poet! a writer! a critic! and a journalist. He authored "First Day of Spring!" "My Star Predominant!" "There Was a Mr. Cristi!" "White Narcissus!" and "Windfalls for Cider." He was the first Canadian writer to be published in Parisian magazines alongside personalities such as Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce. Gregory Betts is an assistant professor at Brock University! where he teaches Canadian and avant-garde literature. He is the editor of "After Exile: A Raymond Knister Poetry Reader"!" "the acting editor of "PRECIPICe" literary magazine! and the author of "Haikube" and "If Language." He lives in St. Catherines! Ontario. Klappentext Presenting the most comprehensive selection of the famed Canadian writer's verse, this anthology brings together all of Raymond Knister's known poems - many of them in print for the first time - along with numerous letters and prose pieces. From pastoral compositions and alternate poetic versions to selected stories and essays, this collection demonstrates why the author was an influential personality in the modernist canon.
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Raymond Knister was a poet, a writer, a critic, and a journalist. He authored
First Day of Spring,
My Star Predominant,
There Was a Mr. Cristi,
White Narcissus, and
Windfalls for Cider. He was the first Canadian writer to be published in Parisian magazines alongside personalities such as Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce.
Gregory Betts is an assistant professor at Brock University, where he teaches Canadian and avant-garde literature. He is the editor of
After Exile: A Raymond Knister Poetry Reader, the acting editor of
PRECIPICe literary magazine, and the author of
Haikube and
If Language. He lives in St. Catherines, Ontario.