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'''Robert Bringhurst''' (
1946—) is a
Canadian author and
poet who writes about native issues and
typography. He lives in
Vancouver, British Columbia.
==Works==
===Poetry===
*''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'' –
2001
*''Ursa Major'' –
2003
===Prose===
*''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'' –
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
*''The Solid Form Of Language: An Essay On Writing And Meaning'' –
2004
===Translation===
*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
