Rhymes And Reasons;: Nine Canadian Poets Discuss Their Work (aspects Of English)

Preface: Reading The Poem -- George Bowering: Locus Solus -- Moon Shadow -- Inside The Tulip -- The Grass -- The Egg -- Early Afternoon In The Rainy Season -- David Helwig -- Sunday -- Grass Seed -- A Shaker Chair -- Elegy -- Balearic Winter -- Poems For The End Of The Revolution -- George Jonas -- Broad Street, New York -- Hotel Royal, Budapest -- Emile X, Student Revolutionary -- On A State Funeral -- The Circle Narrows -- Five Stanzas On Perfection -- Lionel Kearns -- Presence -- It -- Friday At The Ex -- Bleeding Poem -- Foreign Aid -- Telephone -- Gwendolyn Macewen -- You Held Out The Light -- Manzini: Escape Artist -- When I Think About It -- Meditations Of A Seamstress (1) -- Meditations Of A Seamstress (2) -- Writing After Coming Out Of A Deep Sleep -- Tom Marshall -- Autobiographies -- Words In Exile -- Interior Monologue -- Riding In Colin's Boat -- Song -- West Street -- John Newlove -- By The Church Wall -- She -- The Engine And The Sea -- Ride Off Any Horizon -- Dream -- Elephants -- Alden Nowlan -- The Execution -- The Bull Moose -- On The Nature Of Human Compassion -- Alpha And Omege -- I, Icarus -- Walking Toward The Bus Station -- J. Michael Yates -- In Memoriam: Peter Paul Fersch -- Maria -- Again And Again I Go Away -- I Persist In A Little Fabric -- In The Blood-coloured Cage -- Canticle For Electronic Music. [by] John Robert Colombo, With Questions By Roy Bentley. Distributed In The U.s. By Mine Publications, Minneapolis, Minn.