Norm Sibum has been writing and publishing poetry for over thirty years. Born in Oberammergau in 1947, he grew up in Germany, Alaska, Utah, and Washington before moving to Vancouver in 1968. He has published several volumes of poetry in Canada and England. A joint U.S.-Canadian citizen, Sibum currently lives and works in Montreal, Quebec.

“Sibum’s poems are not everyone’s cup of tea … instead of breathing air they inhale the exhaust of apocalyptic times.”—Books in Canada“The language, the focus on American politics and warfare, the contrarian dialogue with friends … gives way, just often enough, to rage … at how the century began.”—Gord Sellar“Sibum has a natural gift of meditative narrative, a quite powerful instinctive sense of appropriate form, and a wonderful and diverse eloquence in the old sense of that word.”—Michael Schmidt

• ContentsOpen G for Blind Joe DeathLeaving CirceGrandstandingFrieda Sue VagolinThe Last Alchemist of Potton CountyPrometheus on the TerrasseMrs. Lively, Her Poet, Her VoicesOrchid to HamsherEverything and Nothing: The ArgumentSub DivoRenderings from PropertiusTirade and Fluff, for FoulardThat Little Matter of the Cherub AddressedGardens of the InterregnumNear the MissisquoiTacitus in the Afternoon

Norm Sibum has been writing and publishing poetry for over thirty years. Born in Oberammergau in 1947, he grew up in Germany, Alaska, Utah, and Washington before moving to Vancouver in 1968. He has published several volumes of poetry in Canada and England. A joint U.S.-Canadian citizen, Sibum currently lives and works in Montreal, Quebec.

“Sibum’s poems are not everyone’s cup of tea … instead of breathing air they inhale the exhaust of apocalyptic times.”—Books in Canada“The language, the focus on American politics and warfare, the contrarian dialogue with friends … gives way, just often enough, to rage … at how the century began.”—Gord Sellar“Sibum has a natural gift of meditative narrative, a quite powerful instinctive sense of appropriate form, and a wonderful and diverse eloquence in the old sense of that word.”—Michael Schmidt

• ContentsOpen G for Blind Joe DeathLeaving CirceGrandstandingFrieda Sue VagolinThe Last Alchemist of Potton CountyPrometheus on the TerrasseMrs. Lively, Her Poet, Her VoicesOrchid to HamsherEverything and Nothing: The ArgumentSub DivoRenderings from PropertiusTirade and Fluff, for FoulardThat Little Matter of the Cherub AddressedGardens of the InterregnumNear the MissisquoiTacitus in the Afternoon

Norm Sibum has been writing and publishing poetry for over thirty years. Born in Oberammergau in 1947, he grew up in Germany, Alaska, Utah, and Washington before moving to Vancouver in 1968. He has published several volumes of poetry in Canada and England. A joint U.S.-Canadian citizen, Sibum currently lives and works in Montreal, Quebec.

“Sibum’s poems are not everyone’s cup of tea … instead of breathing air they inhale the exhaust of apocalyptic times.”—Books in Canada“The language, the focus on American politics and warfare, the contrarian dialogue with friends … gives way, just often enough, to rage … at how the century began.”—Gord Sellar“Sibum has a natural gift of meditative narrative, a quite powerful instinctive sense of appropriate form, and a wonderful and diverse eloquence in the old sense of that word.”—Michael Schmidt

• ContentsOpen G for Blind Joe DeathLeaving CirceGrandstandingFrieda Sue VagolinThe Last Alchemist of Potton CountyPrometheus on the TerrasseMrs. Lively, Her Poet, Her VoicesOrchid to HamsherEverything and Nothing: The ArgumentSub DivoRenderings from PropertiusTirade and Fluff, for FoulardThat Little Matter of the Cherub AddressedGardens of the InterregnumNear the MissisquoiTacitus in the Afternoon