Walid bitar biography of alberta
Walid Hanna Bitar, 76 - San Ramon, CA - Has Court or Arrest ...
- Walid Bitar was born in Beirut, Lebanon in and spent his childhood there; he emigrated with his family to Canada.
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Walid Bitar was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1961 and spent his childhood there; he emigrated with his family to Canada. | |
Rajinderpal S. Pal was born in Punjab, India and grew up in London, England. |
Ronald Walid Bitar - Salinas, CA - Has Court or Arrest Records
Readers familiar with Lebanese-born and Toronto-based poet Walid Bitar will find few surprises in his most recent collection. Divide and Rule bears an especially strong resemblance to its immediate predecessor, The Empire’s Missing Links (a book I reviewed in Arc 62). The similarities are thematic—power and its breakdown are preoccupations of Bitar’s—as well as formal: the poems in each book are set in quatrains and range from sixteen to thirty-six lines in length.
It isn’t just repetition that makes a comparison unfortunate. As I said in my review of TEML, range is not a forte of Bitar’s; because his poems don’t vary much, it’s crucial that they be chosen judiciously for a collection. While D&R contains only forty-two poems printed on fifty-five pages of text—brief by contemporary publishing standards—it is nonetheless a good one-third longer than TEML (thirty poems and forty pages).
Coach House’s cover copy calls D&R’s pieces “dramatic monologues … ea
Bitar, Walid - Porkopolis
- The poetry of Walid Bitar is a bracing antidote to the decorous meditations and maudlin confessions of much of modern American poetry.
The Empire’s Missing Links - Vehicule Press
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Walid Bitar – Asian Heritage in Canada
Walid Jawdat Bitar, 81 - Citrus Heights, CA - Has Court or ...
- As the title suggests, Walid Bitar understands shift and change-literally in the rifts between Lebanon and adoptive Canada-and aesthetically, through a dazzling range of linguistic moves that place him among the most exciting of poet experimenters.
Divide and Rule - Quill and Quire - Quill & Quire
- Walid Bitar’s Bio WALID BITAR has published four books of poetry: Maps with Moving Parts, 2 Guys on Holy Land, Bastardi Puri and The Empire’s Missing Links.