A Disciplined Passion Essays on the Works of Keith Garebian

by Wolff, Elana; Bateman, David

• ISBN13: 9781771839617
• ISBN10: 1771839619
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2025-09-01
• Publisher: Guernica Editions

Summary

Beginning with a friend and colleague’s reminiscences of Keith Garebian’s early teaching years at a Catholic high school in Montreal, this collection ranges from accolades and detailed overviews by a variety of distinguished artists and writers. Garebian has consistently revealed, in his daily practice, as theatre and literary critic, biographer, and poet “the heat of so much disciplined passion.” The collection stands as a testament to an intense zest and respect for the issues and the artist being addressed - an artist whose work has passionately taken on complex issues ranging from illness, to sexuality, and genocide.

Author Biography

David Bateman is a Toronto-based poet, painter, and arts journalist. He has taught creative writing at various universities across Canada. His four collections of poetry, as well as a collaborative long poem (with Hiromi Goto) were published by Frontenac House Press (Calgary)  from 2005 through 2014. His first novel, DR SAD, was published by the University of Calgary Press in November of 2020. A collection of short stories & creative non-fiction entitled A MAD BENT DIVA – an anagram for the author’s name – was published by Hidden Brook Press (Brighton) in 2017.

Elana Wolff is the author of eight collections of poetry and a collection of essays on poems. She has also co-authored, with the late Malca Litovitz, a collection of rengas and co-translated, with Menachem Wolff, poems from the Hebrew by Georg Mordechai Langer. Elana’s poems and creative nonfiction pieces are widely published in Canada and internationally and have garnered awards. She has taught English for Academic Purposes at York University in Toronto and at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She currently lives and works in Thornhill, Ontario. Elana’s collection, Swoon (Guernica Editions, 2020), received the 2020 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry. Her latest book, Faithfully Seeking Franz (Guernica Editions, 2023), a cross-genre quest for dead mentor, Prague modernist author Franz Kafka, is the recipient of the 2024 Canadian Jewish Literary Award in the category of Jewish Thought and Culture.