Academic Festival Overtures

Download or read book Academic Festival Overtures written by Daryl Hine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1985-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1985, Daryl Hine's Academic Festival Overtures is a rare feat of formal and imaginative brilliance, a long confessional poem and bildungsromans, recounting the author's own fourteenth year in 1950s British Columbia. The work evokes the passage from adolesence through puberty, the discovery of vocation and sexuality, and is an important contribution to gender and queer studies in Canada, as well as literary history. With a new introduction by poet and scholar John Hollander.