The Properties of Things: From: The Poems of Batholomew the Englishman

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The Properties of Things continues David Solway's explorations in the realm of fictive translation, this time that of the obscure thirteenth century scholar Bartolomaeus Anglicus. The result is a poetic alphabetary, ranging from the bawdy to the sublime.
David Solway has been called "an internationalist of the imagination." He remains one of the country's most brilliant and inventive poets.

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"Solway's work has a rushing, metaphoric brilliance...it is always informed by a knowing humour."—Saturday Night "It is impossible to keep pace with David Solway's inventiveness."—Canadian Book Review Award

Author Bio

David Solway: David Solway is the author of many books of poetry including Modern Marriage, Bedrock, Saracen Island: The Poetry of Andreas Karavis, and Franklin's Passage, winner of the 2004 Le Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal. Currently an associate editor with Books in Canada, he lives in Hudson, Quebec.