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Smoking Mirror

By (author): Brian Henderson

Smoking Mirror is a selection of new prose poems based on the imagery of Aztec mythology and folklore. Illustrated with reproductions of Aztec paintings and stone cuttings, Smoking Mirror is a compelling work by the author of The Viridical Book of the Silent Planet, Migration of Light, The Expanding Room, and Paracelcus.

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Brian Henderson

Brian Henderson is the author of eight collections of poetry (including a deck of visual poem-cards). His work has appeared in a number of small magazines. In the 70s he was a founding editor of RUNE. He has a PhD in Canadian literature, has worked as a university instructor, a phone jack installer, a traffic counter, a shipper/receiver and a rock drummer. He’s been employed in educational publishing for most of his career but is now the director of Wilfrid Laurier University Press. He has two children by a previous relationship and lives with the love of his life in Kitchener, Ontario.


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Smoking Mirror is a selection of new prose poems based on the imagery of Aztec mythology and folklore. Illustrated with reproductions of Aztec paintings and stone cuttings, Smoking Mirror is a compelling work by the author of The Viridical Book of the Silent Planet, Migration of Light, The Expanding Room, and Paracelcus.

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Dimensions:

64 Pages
8in * 5in *
0.292lb

Published:

January 01, 1990

City of Publication:

Toronto

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

ECW Press

ISBN:

9781550221053

Book Subjects:

POETRY / Canadian

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Language:

eng

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