AMERICAN LINES
Contributors: Graphics by XARA PAPATHEODOROU
Publisher: Three Star Printing And Publishing Company
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Montreal, Province Quebec.
Language: eng
Format: Hardbound
Number of pages: 174
Copyright date: Copyright in Canada as an Unpublished Work 1966
Subjects: American Poetry; Prose Poetry; Canadian Poetry
Genres: Literature
Work titles: Verse and Prose Poetry
Description: A Collection of Poems, Prose Poetry, and Lines including Three Poems For Children. Location of the poems is mainly in Canada and in California. Extracts include descriptions of La Jolla; Injun Summer on the Ohio River; U.S. Highways; Postcards.The writer was experimenting with PROSE POETRY. Examples include TREES; ENSENADA;WHERE ARE THEY GONE, THE WALTZ, OF AGO; FROM A CONCERT AT CAL TEC (Schubert Octetin F Major, Op 166). The Artist Xara Papatheodorou  sought to express the graphics in terms of the verse, thus: FLOWER - the girl is illustrated in the "garden of tenderness where flowers are for everyone"; SAINTS are pictured in terms of an  old fisherman and Byzantine saint; RAIN STATES illustrate the inside and outside of a room while rain drops fall. The three POEMS FOR CHILDREN are titled: FOR MY NEPHEW;  LITTLE CANADIANS; BED TIME.
Notes: Poems and Prose Poems. The writer is a physician and educator. The present work was a development of his interest in CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS DEATH (See page 173). He was also experimenting in Prose Poetry, in which he says, "the subject matter is presented in the style of prose but is to be interpreted by the reader in a sensitive understanding that allows it to be thought of as poetry, poetry in the mind of the writer being the most beautiful and expressive way of using words to say things - anything". At this stage of his work the writer was also experimenting with Post Ulysses Joycian Stream of Conscious presentation as a literary form.
Table of contents: title: 83 General Poems are listed; title: Three Poems for Children are listed; title: Four Pieces of Prose Poetry are listed; title: Five Presentations listed as LINES