Reseña del libro "Rocky Mountain-Holiday, poet (en Inglés)"
Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022. Previously published as Between the Gums (LukivPress Online [Quesnel, BC], 2008). An excerpt Not Under Arktos, the Bear An ice-tide of breadth, Shrinking and spreading in earth flow, Circling a fish drawn up and solidIn five seconds, And steel dropped, turned to shards.Brutal beauty, this ice-desert-Home of the wingless midgeAnd Aristotelian balance to theNorth Bulk. See the Ross Ice Shelf, Big as France, Fed by seven solid floes, Puking ice berg citiesOf blue mammothFor chinstrap penguinsTo jabber on. James Cook awed and repelled and attractedBy windswept blueIce-islandsSloshed and dunked by tyrannosaurus teethOf sea-salt and whirl. Send the gold-rush skins of blood-bareSeals to China and Europe and other closets.Step on mainland moss that can't hideOne print for one decade.Dig a great heal into this humpbackless, Ozoneless antipode. This ice-fist freezesWhat it can. 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).
