Eric Ormsby: Eric Ormsby is the author of five collections of
poetry, a book of essays, and a number of scholarly studies of
Islamic thought. He was born in Georgia, raised in Florida, and
worked for twenty years as director of libraries and professor of
Islamic Studies at McGill University. His poetry has been widely
published and anthololgized in Canada, the United States, and
Britain. In 1992, he received an Ingram Merrill Award for poetry
and in the same year was awarded the Qspell Prize for Bavarian
Shrine. Since 2004, he has written a weekly column on literature
for the New York Sun and regularly contributes essays and reviews
to The New Criterion, Books in Canada, The Times Literary
Supplement and Parnassus. He has two sons and now lives with his
wife Irena, an architectural historian, in London.
"Time's Covenant is the volume to acquire if you find Ormsby's work to your liking... none of his poems is without merit." - Quarterly Conversation "The lyrics, as great poems are apt to be, are so rich and complex as to defy summation. Simultaneously concrete and abstract, optimistic and pessimistic, prayerful and irreverent, truthful and deceiving, Ormsby's creations are singular, layered, and exciting."—Canadian Literature "While some may find Ormsby's more ambitious sequential work (such as Araby) a little difficult, Time's Covenant represents the best of all possible worlds: a gorgeous book picking out the best of the best from his considerable oeuvre, as well as a convenient introduction for those who may have missed his work to this point."—Globe and Mail
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