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Alex Boyd
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One Question Interview: Chris Banks
Chris Banks is a Pushcart-nominated poet with eight collections of poems. He has won two national awards, and his poems have appeared across Canada and the United States. Banks runs The Woodlot, a Canadian poetry reviews and essays website. His latest collection is Bureau of Useless Splendour from ECW Press.
I think being far-sighted and thinking bigger picture is among the best qualifications
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Army of the Brave and Accidental
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2018
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Shy: An Anthology
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2013
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The Least Important Man
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2012
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The Best Canadian Essays 2009
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2009
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I.V. Lounge Nights
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2008
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Making Bones Walk
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2007
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The Best Canadian Essays 2010
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2010
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Take This for the Pain: Essays on Writing and Life
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“When he stumbles in the trench / his hands cut into mud like dough. / Surrounded by puddles, rats, lice." -- The Baker Signed up, 1914”
― Making Bones Walk
― Making Bones Walk
“Blood is shy, all day hiding in you and asking the same worried questions.”
― The Least Important Man
― The Least Important Man
“As the late Edward W Said wrote after the attack on the World Trade Center, ‘Western humanism is not enough: we need a universal humanism.’ I agree with that. The question is how to get it, and my own view is that it can’t be had unless we raise our demands on ourselves a long way beyond decorating our lives with enough cultivation to make the pursuit of ambition look civilized.”
― Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
― Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
“That we are mostly quarks and water, but still feel joy is a bona fide miracle. Blood hymns in sunshine. Joy plunges its little dagger of shivers over and over, into our hearts. Joy is the surprise, after the surprise, after apocalyptic narratives. I’m for joy getting its own Nobel Prize.”
― Deepfake Serenade
― Deepfake Serenade