COLOMBO, John Robert

Very much an odd man both out and in Canadian literature, a prolific writer and editor whose achievements are so numerous they are foolishly taken for granted, Colombo has worked with a variety of unusual poetic strategies. His first books were found poetry, each dependent upon making art from esoteric texts found in his unusually wide reading; his term at the time was redeemed prose. The Canadian critic Douglas Barbour writes that Colombo's The Great Cities of Antiquity (1979) (1979) ...