The back cover of Another Mouth (1979) calls George Bowering "fearlessly honest," and a note "About the Author" tells the reader that he was born in 1939; John Roberto Colombo, in Contemporary Poets ...
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Critical Essay by Robert Fulford
A Short Sad Book (it is fairly short, but I don't find it sad—on the contrary) sets forth, in an atmosphere of fantasy and parody, some of Bowering�...
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Critical Essay by Ken Norris
A survey of Bowering's writing becomes a study of the principles of language at work: the subtleties of cadence and rime, the use of the lyric or serial poem form,...
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Critical Essay by Leon Surette
Vonnegut, Barth, Fowles look out: Here comes Bowering. The parody of realistic fiction or anti-novel (to use the familiar semi-literate label) is itself parodied in A S...
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George Bowering
Critical Essay by Robert Fulford
