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    The Gamekeeper: Selected Poems 1976 - 2011
    The Gamekeeper: Selected Poems 1976 - 2011
    The Gamekeeper: Selected Poems 1976 - 2011
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    The Gamekeeper: Selected Poems 1976 - 2011

    By Michael Harris

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    Michael Harris's first poetry collection since his Governor General's Award-nominated Circus (2010), The Gamekeeper assembles a thoughtful selection of the Montreal poet’s accomplished verse. With evocative imagery and a natural sense of rhythm, Harris writes of illness, pain, marriage, death, imaginary fairy-tale monsters, and much else. The result, according to one reviewer, "straddles a position between the carnivalesque and the sensual."
    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherporcupinequill
    Release dateOct 18, 2017
    ISBN9780889848481
    The Gamekeeper: Selected Poems 1976 - 2011
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    Michael Harris

    Michael Harris grew up in Dunsmuir, Calif., served with the 1st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam, has a B.A. in English from the University of Oregon, an M.A.T. from Harvard and an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and worked as a reporter and editor for several West Coast newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times. He and his family live in Long Beach. He is the author of "The Chieu Hoi Saloon" (PM Press, 2010) and "Canyon: Two Dunsmuir Stories," both available on Amazon.

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