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Robert Bringhurst

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Robert Bringhurst is a poet, typographer and linguist, well known for his award-winning translations of the Haida storytellers Skaay and Ghandl, and for his translations of the early Greek philosopher-poet Parmenides. His manual The Elements of Typographic Style has itself been translated into ten languages and is now one of the world’s most influential texts on typographic design. Among his most recent publications is a pair of essay collections, The Tree of Meaning (GP, 2006) and Everywhere Being is Dancing (GP, 2007). Bringhurst lives on Quadra Island, off the British Columbia coast.

Books by Robert Bringhurst

Being in Being

The Collected Works of a Master Haida Mythteller

by (author) Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay
translated by Robert Bringhurst

Nine Visits to the Mythworld

Told by Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas

by (author) Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas
translated by Robert Bringhurst

The Ridge

by (author) Robert Bringhurst

Learning to Die

Wisdom in the Age of Climate Crisis

by (author) Robert Bringhurst & Jan Zwicky

Palatino

The Natural History of a Typeface

by (author) Robert Bringhurst

The Griffin Poetry Prize 2014 Anthology

A Seletion of the Shortlist

edited by Robert Bringhurst

Story as Sharp as a Knife, A

The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World

edited by Robert Bringhurst

A Story as Sharp as a Knife

The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World

by (author) Robert Bringhurst

This is What They Say (UWP)

Stories

introduction by Robert Bringhurst
translated by Ronald Scollon

Selected Poems

by (author) Robert Bringhurst

Ursa Major

by (author) Robert Bringhurst

The Surface of Meaning

Books and Book Design in Canada

by (author) Robert Bringhurst

The Tree of Meaning

Thirteen Talks

by (author) Robert Bringhurst

Everywhere Being is Dancing

Twenty Pieces of Thinking

by (author) Robert Bringhurst

The Tree of Meaning

Thirteen Talks

by (author) Robert Bringhurst

Everywhere Being is Dancing

Twenty Pieces of Thinking

by (author) Robert Bringhurst

The Typographic Mind

by (author) Robert Bringhurst

The Solid Form of Language

by (author) Robert Bringhurst

Thinking and Singing

Poetry and the Practice of Philosophy

by (author) Robert Bringhurst, Dennis Lee, Don MacKay & Jan Zwicky
edited by Tim Liburn

Nine Visits to the Mythworld

Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas

translated by Robert Bringhurst

The Raven Steals the Light

Drawings by Bill Reid

by (author) Bill Reid & Robert Bringhurst
preface by Claude Lévi-Strauss

Black Canoe

Bill Reid and the Spirit of Haida Gwaii

by (author) Robert Bringhurst
by (photographer) Ulli Steltzer

Tzuhalem's Mountain

by (author) Robert Bringhurst