Poetry. In his most recent volume of poetry, Rienzi Crusz's preoccupations have not substantially changed, but his perspectives have. He is deeply conscious of time and place, the events of the past and the concerns of the future. But like many lyrical poets, he is also concerned with broader existential concerns, with love and hope, with tragedy and despair. He continues to look at nature in its multiple forms for inspiration and tranquility. The journey continues. Rienzi Crusz "must wizard a track through his own screaming weed." As he meditates on the edge of silence, he goes feistily through the scowl of age, distance and time, lovingly through the many idioms of the sun, and revels in the poetic spaces with the `singing metaphor,' the dance of words. Crusz also sings of his zest for life--"Hell, No !" He will "not go gentle into that dark night." As always, he holds to the tried recipes of his song: love and laughter, and memories that stay like honey in the mouth.

Author City: TORONTO, ON CAN

Rienzi Crusz was born in Sri Lanka and came to Canada in 1965. Educated at the Universities of Ceylon, London (England), Toronto, and Waterloo. He has widely published in magazines in Canada and the United States, and is the author of ten previous collections of poetry.