Reseña del libro "The Toll Bridge, poetry (en Inglés)"
Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022. Previously published as Over the Shoulder, bibliographic poetry (LukivPress Online, Quesnel, BC, 2007). An excerpt Arctic Killer Polar bear: Hiding, With a paw, Your black nose(Ingenious)As you stalk prey.You're eidolic, A Portuguese man-of-war, To the fleshYou eat. Photographer-pilots"Captured" youIn your white desert: Click.But you, In an 8 by 10 paradox, Weren't there, Like a Hollywood vampireWithout a virtualImage. Even infrared failsTo capture youWho, Like a black hole, Harvests solar heatThat black skinAbsorbs. Ultraviolet filmExposes you: A great, Black amoeba, As unphotogenic asThe small, White seals(They too areHeat-absorbing miracles)That you eat. You stalk men-You, The most beautifulOf all bears(Some say)-Just as NimrodStalked menIn war-play. In a zoo-cageYou're adoredBy awe-struck children("He's so cute!"), But in the wild, Face to face, You're a gargoyleWith teethThat kill. Various poems in this collection have appeared in one or more of Authors (Canada), Green's Magazine (Canada), Word is Out (Canada), canadian content (Canada), *spark (Canada), CHALLENGER international (Canada), A Journal of Contemporary Canadian Poetry and Poetics (Canada), Waterways: Poetry in the Mainstream (USA), Hidden Oak Poetry Journal (USA), So Young! (USA), The Poet's Corner (USA), Neovictorian Cochlea (USA), Poetry Magazine (USA), Poetic Voices (USA), The Journal (England), DeepSouth (New Zealand), The English Teachers' Online Network of South Africa, Artslink (South Africa), Electric Acorn (Ireland), and Redoubt (Australia). 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).
