Joe Rosenblatt

Joe Rosenblatt

1933-12-26
85 (2019-03-11)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Joseph Rosenblatt was a Canadian poet who lived in Qualicum Beach, British Columbia. He won Canada's Governor-General's Award and British Columbia's B.C. Book Prize for poetry. He was also a talented artist, whose "line drawings, paintings, and sketches often illustrate his own and other poets’ books of poetry."

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Joseph Rosenblatt was a Canadian poet who lived in Qualicum Beach, British Columbia. He won Canada's Governor-General's Award and British Columbia's B.C. Book Prize for poetry. He was also a talented artist, whose "line drawings, paintings, and sketches often illustrate his own and other poets’ books of poetry."

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When the Light Gray Man Carries Your Luggage 1981

Canadian Poet Joe Rosenblatt's reading his poem of the same name along with evocations of the poem's landscape. Using the metaphoric terrain of his allusions we draw closer to the imaginative leaps that come to light.