Douglas Barbour

Douglas Barbour

Douglas Barbour is Professor emeritus, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta. His books include Fragmenting Body etc, Breath Takes, and with Sheila E Murphy, Continuations and Continuations 2; and the critical texts, Michael Ondaatje and Lyric / Anti-lyric: essays on contemporary poetry. Listen. If was published by the University of Alberta Press, Spring 2017. He was inducted into the Edmonton Cultural Hall of Fame in 2003. Eclectic Ruckus is his review blog: https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/

without relinquishing hope
            even a sliver that defies
                        dark sky          guarding
    person from poisonous

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