[New-Poetry] Blaser profile

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SANDRA MARTIN 

Globe and Mail Update

May 14, 2009 at 4:18 PM EDT




Robin Blaser always made an impression.


Beautiful with a sculpted face, moody eyes and a delicately attuned ear, he wrote poetry that was both playful and intricately laden with cultural and literary references. George Bowering, an admirer since he first read him in Donald Allen's anthology, The New American Poetry: 1945-1960, calls Mr. Blaser one of "the scholar poets." 

He puts him in the tradition of Dante, Shelley, Pound and Eliot, men who embraced learning and whose poetry "depended on a lot more than honing your skills as a lyricist."

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