There’s much talk these days about Canada’s “Cool North” providing a sort of escape valve for Americans overwhelmed by climate change, world events, off-kilter right-wing presidents, and their nation’s divided self. I could sense this “warming up” to the cool northern neighbour happening as early as 1967, when the Vietnam War sent many young men slipping across the forty-ninth…
Gary Geddes
Gary Geddes has written or edited over fifty volumes of fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry, including The Oysters I Bring to Banquets.
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Gary Geddes
When I started writing poetry seriously in the mid-1960s, I found myself on rather unstable ground. Whatever tradition there might have been of addressing the darker realities of contemporary life had become suspended for a more personal or confessional mode, the kind associated with Robert Lowell and Anne Sexton. Much of this shift had to do with the Cold War and a resulting relativism in the…