miniaturadeimagen|derecha|Robert Bringhurst Robert Bringhurst (Los Ángeles, ) es un poeta, tipógrafo y escritor canadiense. Autor de The Elements of Typographic Style, obra de referencia obligada sobre tipos de letra, glifos y la disposición geométrica y visual de los tipos. También ha traducido al inglés obras de poesía épica de mitología Haida. Biografía Nacido en Los Ángeles, California, fue criado en Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Alberta y Columbia Británica. Estudió arquitectura, lingüística y física en el Massachusetts Institute of Technology, y posteriormente literatura comparada y filosofía en la Universidad de Utah. También posee un BA de la Universidad de Indiana y un MFA en narración creativa de la Universidad de Columbia Británica.
En la actualidad reside en Quadra Island, cerca de Campbell River, Columbia Británica.
Bibliografía Poesía 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), 1985 (Copper Canyon Press) Tending the Fire – 1985 The Blue Roofs of Japan – 1986 Pieces of Map, Pieces of Music – 1986, 1987 (Copper Canyon Press) 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 (shortlisted for the 2004 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize) New World Suite Number Three: A poem in four movements for three voices – 2006 Selected Poems – 2009
Prosa 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 The Elements of Typographic Style – 1992, revised 1996, revised 2004, revised 2005 The Solid Form Of Language: An Essay On Writing And Meaning – 2004 The Tree of Meaning: Thirteen Lectures 2006Everywhere Being is Dancing 2007 The Surface of Meaning: Books and Book Design in Canada – 2008
Traducciones A trilogy entitled Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers: A Story As Sharp As a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World – 1999 (nominated for a Governor General's Award) Nine Visits to the Mythworld – (a reinterpretation of the stories of mythteller Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas, as collected in 1900 by John Reed SwantonNorthwest Coast Books: Nine Visits to the Mythworld) – 2000 (shortlisted for the 2001 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize) Being in Being: The Collected Works of a Master Haida Mythteller - Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay – 2002 Parmenides, The Fragments – 2003
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Griffin Poetry Prize biography Griffin Poetry Prize reading, including audio clip Robert Bringhurst reads from Nine Visits to the Mythworld (video)
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