Literary Biography of Robin Blaser

Miriam Nichols is Professor in the Department of English at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, British Columbia where she teaches modernism, American and Canadian literature, and literary theory. Her publications include scholarly editions of Robin Blaser’s The Fire: Collected Essays and The Holy Forest: Collected Poems (2006), and a series of essays on the New American poets, Radical Affections: Essays on the Poetics of Outside (2010). She has also completed an edition of Blaser’s The Astonishment Tapes (2015), an annotated transcript of a series of autobiographical audio tapes that Blaser recorded in 1974.

• Chapter 1 Introductions.- Chapter 2 Family Matters.- Chapter 3 Berkeley.- Chapter 4 Boston: The Librarian.- Chapter 5 San Francisco.- Chapter 6 Vancouver in the Sixties: Context as Explanation.- Chapter 7 Cher maître.- Chapter 8 Big Poetry.- Chapter 9 The Irreparable.