From his first book, The Visible Man (“as fine a first volume of poetry as one is ever likely to read”  —the Dalhousie Review), to his most recent, Resurrection In the Cartoon (“passionate, humorous, worldly-wise, kick-ass poetry”  —The Vancouver Sun), Robert Priest`s poetry has been the delight of critics and readers alike. Blue Pyramids: New and Selected Poems brings together the best of Robert Priest`s six books of lyric poems, spells, psalms, aphorisms, koans, diatribes, and prose poems along with an exciting new group of poems and aphorisms. Also included is a selection of never-before-published song lyrics. Relentless in their assessment of contemporary culture, the mordant irony, brutal honesty, and remarkable sensitivity of Priest`s works create a poetic crucible in which the Canadian “melting-pot” is purified of its hypocrisies and reclaimed, ultimately, in the joy of language.