Poetry. Asian American Studies. HEMISPHERE OF LOVE reflects the author's passion and honesty as he delves into the mystery of love and strives to bring order to human experience. In this collection a range of scenes and situations is carefully carved in words and couched in metaphor. Geographical and spiritual boundaries, shifting tonalities and moods carry the reader into Dabydeen's complex universe. Janus-faced, he continually looks forward and backward. Cyril Dabydeen has been called a "gifted Canadian poet" by The Toronto Star. He was born in Guyana, South America, and now lives in Ottawa, where he was where he was the Poet Laureate in 1986-1987.

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Cyril Dabydeen is the editor of BEYOND SANGRE GRANDE: CARIBBEAN WRITING TODAY (TSAR Publications), A Shapely Fire: Changing the Literary Landscape (Mosaic Press), and ANOTHER WAY TO DANCE: CONTEMPORARY ASIAN POETRY FROM CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES (TSAR Publications). His work has appeared in the Oxford, Penguin and Heinemann Books of Caribbean Verse, and in over 60 literary magazines worldwide. A former Poet Laureate of Ottawa, his last novel DRUMS OF MY FLESH (TSAR Publications) won the Guyana Prize for Best Book of Fiction and was nominated for the prestigious IMPAC/Dublin Literary Prize. He is the recipient of the 2010 Guyana Lifetime Achievement Award. He teaches at the University of Ottawa.