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The Music
By Ken Norris
An integrated collection of poems written over a six-year period, Ken Norris charts the music of everyday life, of Charlie Parker and Billie Holiday, of sex and jazz, of poetry and baseball.
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An integrated collection of poems written over a six-year period, Ken Norris charts the music of everyday life, of Charlie Parker and Billie Holiday, of sex and jazz, of poetry and baseball.
Ken Norris
Ken Norris is a poet living in Toronto and teaching in Maine. He is the author of dozens of books of poems and the seminal thesis on the little magazine in Canada. His most recent books are Hotel Montreal (Talon Books, 2002) and The Way Life Should Be (Wolsak and Wynn, 2003). He teaches Canadian Literature at the University of Maine.
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- Dimensions 104 pages, 5.50 x 8.50 x 0.30 in
- Published January 1, 1995
- Publisher ECW Press
- Category Poetry
- Keywords Canadian
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