Baby Grand, a slim volume big as it needs to be (and grows in the mind) appeared in 1979, when Brick Books was a chapbook press. Taut, elegant poems. Grab, hold on: you're blessed.

Baby Grand

Literature & Fiction

Birchard, Guy

Poetry

Brick Books

Poetry. From the text: "My fathers fought for small honor, and what / I have abjured would make any ten men rich. / I have listened when there proved to be nothing / to hear, I have given the benefit of the doubt, / even friendship, to fools. And suffered accordingly. // I'm called Bitchin' Birchard, / proudly, in this less than perfect world, and this / prairie is precious as though it belonged to me. / I chreish this place and sing its praises following / the world's own cue. I live by faith alright in / these parts. // I riddle you no riddle, devise no illusion." Guy Birchard lives in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. His previous books incude Neckeverse (Galloping Dog, 1989) and BIRCHARD'S GARAGE (Pig, 1991).

Twenty Grand, the Fin De Siecle Poems

Pressed Wafer Press

Poetry. FURTHER THAN THE BLOOD is Guy Birchard's complete poems to date. In his "Forword" Birchard writes, "I have loved the world and admired the graces and laws by which it runs." Birchard has also loved the word and served its many and various forms with grace and an uncommon music.

Further than the Blood

Pressed Wafer

Only Seemly

Pedlar Pr

<p>Poetry. "The aim of any HECATOMB is propitiation—and earthly peace. The sweet pungent smoke from Guy Birchard's is poetry."—Merrill Gilfillan</p>

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