From Simon & Schuster, Academic Festival Overtures is Daryl Hine's poem. The work evokes the passage from adolescence through puberty, the discovery of vocation and sexuality, and is an important contribution to gender and queer studies in Canada, as well as literary history. Originally published in 1985, Daryl Hine's Academic Festival Overtures is a rare feat of formal and imaginative brilliance, a long confessional poem and bildungsromans, recounting the author's own fourteenth year in 1950s British Columbia ...
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From Simon & Schuster, Academic Festival Overtures is Daryl Hine's poem. The work evokes the passage from adolescence through puberty, the discovery of vocation and sexuality, and is an important contribution to gender and queer studies in Canada, as well as literary history. Originally published in 1985, Daryl Hine's Academic Festival Overtures is a rare feat of formal and imaginative brilliance, a long confessional poem and bildungsromans, recounting the author's own fourteenth year in 1950s British Columbia.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Jacket illustrated by Virgil Burnett. Text block edges very lightly foxed, near fine in a slightly tanned near fine dust jacket with a short tear on the rear panel. A book of poetry focused on one year of the poet's life, his first year in junior high school in British Columbia.