Poetry. GENTLE NORTHERN SUMMER is a compendium of poems that takes the reader on trips to California, Ireland, Moscow and Stonehenge, as well as Terrace and Prince George, British Columbia. Included are the serial poems "Mountains & Air" and "San Francisco's Gone," poems on public events such as the shooting down of the Korean airliner and the fall of the Berlin Wall, and poems on sex, love, work, consumer capitalism, plane and train travel, journalism, resource extraction, teenage boredom, the politics of Oz, hockey, city traffic, hangovers, and the deaths of family and friends. This is a phenomenology of "life, that is, happiness" (Czesław Miłosz).

Author City: VANCOUVER, BC CAN

George Stanley was born and raised in San Francisco where, in the sixties, he was part of the San Francisco Renaissance which included Robert Duncan, Robin Blaser and Jack Spicer. He moved to Vancouver in the seventies where he became associated with New Star Press, and The Grape (an underground newspaper). He has been active in Canadian politics, unions and alternative media. His books include GENTLE NORTHERN SUMMER (New Star, 1995), AT ANDY'S (New Star, 2000), A TALL, SERIOUS GIRL: SELECTED POEMS 1957-2000 (Qua Books, 2003), and VANCOUVER: A POEM (New Star Books, 2008). Stanley still resides in Vancouver.