The Oysters I Bring to Banquets: Volume 296 - Paperback

by Gary Geddes (Author)

Gary Geddes's new collection of lyrics and poem-sequences ranges from whimsical poems about the building of a greenhouse to the struggle of characters in classical legends to cope with the interference of close relatives and extended family, the gods. And poems about Yukon adventures and the wonders and plight of monarch butterflies in Mexican highlands. It's also a diverse gathering of elegies for friends, literary luminaries, creatures and natural habitats in a world under siege, but also a series of hymns to art, beauty, human dignity and endurance.

Author Biography

Gary Geddes has written and edited more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, drama, non-fiction, criticism, translation, and anthologies, including 20th-Century Poetry and Poetics, and won a dozen national and international literary awards, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Americas Region), Lt.-Governor's Award for Literary Excellence, and the Gabriela Mistral Prize.