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Poetry Event - Gary Geddes

"What Does a House Want?" affirms Gary Geddes' place as one of the premier Canadian poets of his generation. Equally at home with the lyric and the long poem, Geddes brings his “deadly accuracy in language and form” and his no-holds-barred style to bear on multinationals, Israeli-Palestinian violence, the guilt of Leon Trotsky, P.O.W.s, assassins, mad bombers, China’s bloody Emperor Qin Shi Huang, and the reputation of Ezra Pound. “Sandra Lee Scheuer,” a lyric on the Kent State killings, has been described as “the kind of poem most poets wait a lifetime for” and "The Terracotta Army", an award-winning sequence on politics and art, insists on the marriage of story and song, embracing narrative, yet achieving a rare and luminous lyric intensity.

Award winning author and poet, Gary Geddes, earned a Bachelor's Degree in English and Philosophy at the University of British Columbia and received a Master's and Doctorate in English from the University of Toronto. From 1978 to 1998 he taught English and Creative Writing at Corcordia University and in 1998 he was appointed Distinguished Professor of Canadian Culture at Western Washington University where he continued until 2001. He received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Royal Roads University. He served as writer-in-residence at Green College at the University of British Columbia and the Vancouver Public Library and he taught English at the British Columbia Institute of Technology as well as the University of Victoria. Mr. Geddes has written or edited over thirty-five books. His works include fiction, non-fiction, drama, translation, criticism, anthologies and seventeen books of poetry. 

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