Transformations - Softcover

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John Reibetanz was born in New York City, and grew up in the eastern United States and Canada. He put himself through university by working at numerous non-poetic jobs, and is probably the only member of the League of Canadian Poets to have belonged to the Amalgamated Meatcutters Union. A finalist for both the National Magazine Awards (Canada) and the National Poetry Competition (United States), he has given readings of his poetry in most major cities in North America. His poems have appeared in such magazines as Poetry (Chicago), the Paris Review, Canadian Literature, the Malahat Review, the Fiddlehead, the Southern Review, and Quarry. His fifth collection, Mining for Sun (Brick Books, 2000), was shortlisted for the ReLit Poetry Award; his sixth, Near Relations, was published by McClelland and Stewart in 2005. In 2003 he was awarded First Prize in the international Petra Kenney Poetry Competition. John Reibetanz lives in Toronto with his wife and three children, and he teaches at Victoria College, University of Toronto, where he received the first Victoria University Teaching Award. In addition to poetry, he has written essays on Elizabethan drama and on modern and contemporary poetry, as well as a book on King Lear and a book of translations of modern German poetry. When he is not writing or teaching, he bicycles, kayaks, reads local history, and listens passionately to 1930s jazz.

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Insight and humour are united with astonishing linguistic dexterity in these poems and sequences. Crafting extraordinary tales from often ordinary scenes, with language sharpened by experience, Reibetanz offers poems light as air yet thoroughly rooted in the earth. Throughout this kaleidoscopic collection, John Reibetanz alters the shape of experience.

From his effortless evocation of the hard-edged world of Greek mythology to his exploration of the intimacies of birth and friendship, from the gutsy blues of Robert Johnson to "the tiny mice that live backstage in my computer," his poetic "transformations" turn the world upside down, then right side up again, paying homage to its vast, transforming otherness.

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Insight and humour are united with astonishing linguistic dexterity in these poems and sequences. Crafting extraordinary tales from often ordinary scenes, with language sharpened by experience, Reibetanz offers poems light as air yet thoroughly rooted in the earth. Throughout this kaleidoscopic collection, John Reibetanz alters the shape of experience.

From his effortless evocation of the hard-edged world of Greek mythology to his exploration of the intimacies of birth and friendship, from the gutsy blues of Robert Johnson to "the tiny mice that live backstage in my computer," his poetic "transformations" turn the world upside down, then right side up again, paying homage to its vast, transforming otherness.