Reseña del libro "The Poet, poems (en Inglés)"
Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022. Previously published as Exchange Program (LukivPress [Quesnel, BC], 1999). An excerpt Coleridge As opium-sweatBeads on your browAnd your pay-the-rentNewspaper columns remainClosed tombsIn your ship-tossedMind, Your wife grinds her teeth, Your child nurses what's left, And flames in the fireplaceFlicker with Wordsworth. As opium-sweatMats your hairAnd stings your eyes, You composeYour "Kubla Khan,"Like a deaf Beethoven, Like a night-crazed Mozart, Like a rabid dogAlone on a raftAt sea. The author Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA's Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England's D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer's Digest University (novel writing program).