Clark Blaise Poetry Carpenter’s voice captures both the

Carpenter’s voice captures both the bleakness and the unexpected joys of life

Warren Thouless

Gradually his life takes a new course

and a sundowner discovers that a writer recording the events of his life holds the secret to his ability to remember his past lives

His twenty books of poetry have received such recognitions as the Griffin Poetry Prize

Clark Blaise Poetry Carpenter’s voice captures both theClark Blaise has taught in Montreal, Toronto, Saskatchewan and British Columbia, as well as at Skidmore College, Columbia University, Iowa, NYU, Sarah Lawrence and Emory. For several years he directed the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Among the most widely travelled of authors, he has taught or lectured in Japan, India, Singapore, Australia, Finland, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Holland, Germany, Haiti and Mexico. He lived