Robin Blaser
Blaser, Robin
Robin Blaser, poet, editor, essayist, translator (b at Denver, Colo 18 May 1925; Canadian citizen 1972). Blaser's poetry and poetics were central to the San Francisco renaissance of the 1950s and 1960s, reclaiming for poetry a world other than the one constructed by ratiocination. His work is characterized by passionate commitment to and examination of the experience of beauty as well as the conflict between poetics and fundamentalism in a postmodern world. He grew up in Idaho and attended Berkeley. In 1966, he joined the faculty of Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and brought important experience, energy and insight to the many influences prominent among Canadian writers at the time.
He has edited The Collected Books of Jack Spicer (1975), the Imaginary Letters of Mary Butts (1979), the Selected Poems of George BOWERING (1980), Infinite Worlds: The Poetry of Louis Dudek (1988), and co-edited a collection of conference papers called Art and Reality (1987). Blaser's poems have been published in numerous anthologies in both Canada and the US; as broadsides and chapbooks; and in volumes, including Syntax (1981) and Pell Mell (1988). His collected poems, The Holy Forest (1993), were the subject of an international literary conference held in Vancouver in 1995.
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Roy Miki tribute to Robin Blaser - Fred Wah and Friends Poetry Readin
See a video clip featuring Roy Miki and Greorge Bowering in a tribute to poet Robin Blaser. From YouTube.
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