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Canadian Verse

by Detlev Kirchgatter

122 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #02-0689; ISBN 1-55369-876-2; US$16.00, C$18.50, EUR13.50, £9.50

After three non-fiction titles, a venture into verse addresses Canadian social/political issues and the multitude of Canadian landscapes (includes photographs)

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About the Book A new title by Detlev Kirchgatter. Previous ones: Glimpses From Three Continents, My Berlin - Its People from Hitler to the Present and Voyage Into Life. This new book Canadian Verse is an excursion into the world of verse ably illustrated by his Berlin friend, Frank Zierach, to emphasize the meaning of each verbal palette. In precise diction the writer addresses himself to the issues of social/political concerns in the latter half of the 20th century as they apply to Canada and the world at large. Some of the biting criticism is ameliorated by the beauty of Canadian landscape, as one can find it in the ruggedness of a Canadian Shield, a Pacific Coastline, or an infinity of the Prairies. A perusal of this volume will leave the reader pondering: Whereto humanity?

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About the Author The writer was born in Germany at the beginning of the Hitler era. Too young to be drafted, he experienced the War as a boy never missing any air raids just outside Berlin. By the time of the Allied Victory, he and his capitalist family found themselves in what was to become the 'Democratic Republic', from which they all escaped in 1947. Spending time in West Germany in dike building and mining, he eventually emigrated to Canada. A colourful career develops, ranging from mining, railroading, oceanography and university studies, to teaching, farming and logging. These phases are interrupted by work in Africa as an educational advisor for the then External Aid Office, travels in Mexico, Belize, and trans-Atlantic crossings in his own boat. Off and on he pays visits to his hometown, Berlin, where he ended his teaching career as an exchangee. Somewhere along this course he found time to marry and he has two Canadian children, making his home in Victoria, British Columbia. Throughout his writings, having experienced totalitarianism, he stresses his untamed desire for freedom and independence.

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Table of Contents

CANADIAN SCENES     Non-committal Comparison Photo Courage Foreigners' Appeal Dehumanizing Board Meeting Dichotomy U.S. Investment Business Man Canadian Professional Land Deal Photo Constructive Criticism Decision Wasp Foreign Aid Photo Tolerance Photo Canadian Nationalism School Day Career Student Canadian Bi-Lingualism Career Woman Photo New School Photo Seascape Photo Cliff on Lake Erie Photo Colonial North Photo Indian Canadian Abroad Sudbury Smokestack Photo Old Nick's Copper Summer Heat Precambrian Shores Photo Prairie's Farm Photo Tofino Photo Yonge Street (1970's) Photo Stranger Immigrant Photo

HUMANITY Tragedy Friendship Longing and Resignation Affirmation Photo Fear Photo A Real Woman An Honest Priest A Different Preacher Female Eunuch Matron Photo Male Eunuch Fool Technician Long Haired Modern Child Photo Any Man Photo Last Supper Love Logic Molimo Intuition Photo Night Trust Photo WAR AND SIMILAR Dresden - Old Fashioned War Towers Photo Refugee Photo The Awe of Silence Photo Graves Photo His Crime Astronauts War Casualty Air Raid (from above) Air Raid (from below) Veteran P.O.W. Returns Photo Occupation Soldier Civilian Casualty Convenient Impotence

Berlin Revisited Diogenes OTHER SCENES Utopia Lecture Foreign Student Photo Greek Landscape Photo Honorary Degree Mexico Ugandan Market Ugandan Bride Price Fate of some African Women Karamajong Who Wins a War Sail Past Manitoulin Easter Photo Who I Am

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