The Collected Books of Artie Gold

by Gold, Artie

• ISBN13: 9780889226524
• ISBN10: 0889226520
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-15
• Publisher: Talonbooks Ltd

Summary

Born in 1947 in Brockville, Ontario, Artie Gold appeared like a supernova within the constellation of Montreal Anglophone poets in the late 1960s. Intensely devoted to poetry, having already discovered the work of Frank O'Hara, John Wieners and Jack Spicer in his teens, six books of his poems were published in each of the years 1974-79. Daunted by asthma, complicated by rapidly proliferating allergies and emphysema, he increasingly retreated from the world. At the urging of his friends, a Selected Poems was published in 1992, but only one further book appeared in print in 2003. Artie left the world on St. Valentine's Day, 2007. His eight published books of poetry collected here shine like a beacon of Northern Lights across the literary landscape of the late twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Artie Gold as Light Fixture	p. 5
cityflowers	p. 9
Even yr photograph looks afraid of me	p. 59
Mixed Doubles (with Geoff Young)	p. 121
5 Jockeypoems	p. 139
Some of the cat poems	p. 147
before Romantic Words	p. 171
The Beautiful Chemical Waltz	p. 239
The Hotel Victoria Poems	p. 287
Afterword	p. 301
A Note on the Text	p. 303
Books by Artie Gold	p. 304
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