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John Reibetanz
Grounded in the local and immediate - from Toronto's rivers and ravines to its highways and skyscrapers - John Reibetanz's Metromorphoses explores, in roughly chronological order, some of the radical…
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The Essential John Reibetanz provides a compelling view of the work of a deeply engaged poet whose exploratory syntax and probing imagery come together to form intense meditations on the…
John Reibetanz captures the ordinary details of life – family and friendship, birth and death – and transforms them into the extraordinary. His seventh book of poetry is a masterful…
Poems that examine the creative achievements of the human hand, from cave art to contemporary photography.
John Reibetanz’s twelfth collection, By Hand, begins with an epigraph from Lewis Mumford: ?Until…
In New Songs for Orpheus, John Reibetanz updates Ovid's poetry. His words showed him to be a person of deep empathy for natural, animal, and human worlds, and Reibetanz posits…
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In Earth Words, John Reibetanz breaks bread with three earlier writers through the glosa, a poetic form that unfolds as a dialogue. The collection inscribes a series of concentric circles…
Professor Reibetanz argues that many of the qualities that set Lear apart from Shakespeare’s other tragedies are those it shares with Jacobean drama rather than with earlier Elizabethan drama.
A masterful poet extends his range, bringing both his agile intelligence and musical acuity into play.
Afloat, John Reibetanz’s eighth collection of poetry, focuses on water in many manifestations. The…
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Poems that focus on our relationships with the places we inhabit and that inhabit us.
Reading John Reibetanz, one is struck with the way language, closely attended to, kept oiled and sharp, can give experience back its bite. And conversely, how experience can be the…
John Reibetanz is good on grief: You, mother, / dying, left what was hard first: / bones weeping into/ / your veins like flutes, teeth/ vanished on some hospital/ lunch…
