Blasphemer’s Wheel

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By (author): Patrick Friesen

Winner of the 1994 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award (Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards).Blasphemer’s Wheel is a representative collection of Patrick Friesen’s work, including selections from The Shunning, Flicker and Hawk, Unearthly Horses and You Don’t Get to Be a Saint.”With his customary stateliness and elegance of mind, Friesen engages us to think ‘somewhere between yes and no’–a place, as it turns out, filled with the voices of friends.”–Sharon Thesen

AUTHOR

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.