You Don't Get to Be a Saint
By Patrick Friesen
You Don’t Get to Be a Saint is a sharp-edged collage full of the echoes of human movement and voice“Patrick Friesen is one of the poets we can’t do without. ”—Dennis Lee
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You Don’t Get to Be a Saint is a sharp-edged collage full of the echoes of human movement and voice“Patrick Friesen is one of the poets we can’t do without. ”—Dennis Lee
Patrick Friesen
Patrick Friesen writes poetry, essays, drama, scripts, songs, and text for dance and music. The author of over a dozen books of poetry, Friesen has collaborated with various musicians, including Big Dave McLean, Cate Friesen, and Marilyn Lerner, and with choreographer-dancers Margie Gillis, Stephanie Ballard, and Ruth Cansfield. Friesen also teaches, part-time, as a sessional in the Writing Department at the University of Victoria. His most recent poetry book is jumping in the asylum (Quattro Books, 2011). Formerly of Winnipeg, Friesen now lives in Brentwood Bay on Vancouver Island.