Robert Bringhurst

Robert Bringhurst (1946– ) is a Canadian author and poet who writes about native issues and typography. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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1 Works

Works

The Shipwright's Log – 1972
Cadastre – 1973
Eight Objects – 1975
Bergschrund – 1975
Tzuhalem's Mountain – 1982
The Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems 1972–82 – 1982 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
Tending the Fire – 1985
The Blue Roofs of Japan – 1986
Pieces of Map, Pieces of Music – 1986
Conversations with a Toad – 1987
The Calling: Selected Poems 1970–1995 – 1995
Elements (with drawings by Ulf Nilsen) – 1995
The Book of Silences &ndash 2001
Ursa Major – 2003

Visions: Contemporary Art in Canada (with Geoffrey James, Russel Keziere & Doris Shadbolt) – 1983
Ocean/Paper/Stone – 1984
The Raven Steals the Light (with Bill Reid) – 1984
Shovels, Shoes and the Slow Rotation of Letters – 1986
The Black Canoe (with photographs by Ulli Steltzer) – 1991
Boats Is Saintlier than Captains: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Morality, Language, and Design – 1997
Native American Oral Literatures and the Unity of the Humanities &ndash 1998
A Short History of the Printed Word (with Warren Chappell) – 1999
A Story As Sharp As a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World – 1999 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
The Elements of Typographic Style – 1992, revised 1996

Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas , Nine Visits to the Mythworld – 2000 (nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize)
Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay, Being in Being – 2001
Parmenides, The Fragments – 2003