Robin Blaser

Robin Blaser was a pathbreaking poet and, along with Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan, a founding member of the San Francisco Renaissance in poetry. His work has been recognized with Canada’s most distinguished literary awards—a Griffin Award for lifetime achievement and the Griffin Poetry Prize for his collected poems. He was also made a member of the Order of Canada for his contribution to the arts.

Miriam Nichols is the editor of The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser and The Fire: Collected Essays of Robin Blaser.