DON'T EXPECT THE SUN TO SHINE

Richard Rathwell & Harold Rhenisch • Experimental Fiction / Poetry / Hybrid Genre / Canadian Literature

Book Description

A wake for a poet. A wake for a country. DON'T EXPECT THE SUN TO SHINE is a genre-defying collaboration between Richard Rathwell and Harold Rhenisch — part theatre, part poetry, part cultural exorcism — that stages a funeral for the great Canadian-American poet Robin Blaser and, in the same breath, for the idea of Canada itself.

In this transcultural work of extraordinary formal ambition, Rathwell and Rhenisch dissolve the boundaries between poetry and prose, performance and page, elegy and celebration. The book's square format mirrors its radical geometry: a space where voices overlap, where margins become centres, and where the rituals of mourning open onto the possibility of renewal. What emerges is less a book than an event — a gathering of ghosts and living presences, a séance for a nation's fractured identity.

For readers of hybrid-genre literature, experimental Canadian poetry, and anyone who believes that the most profound acts of patriotism are acts of critical love, DON'T EXPECT THE SUN TO SHINE is a work of uncompromising vision — a book that asks what it means to grieve a country while still living inside it.

Author Bio

RICHARD RATHWELL — See JUMP THE DEVIL (above). HAROLD RHENISCH is an award-winning Canadian poet, essayist, and editor whose work spans more than thirty books across multiple genres. A master of both the lyric and the experimental, Rhenisch has been a defining voice in Canadian letters for decades, exploring landscape, language, and the mythologies of place with singular vision.

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Also by This Author

RATHWELL: JUMP THE DEVIL. RHENISCH: OUT OF THE INTERIOR, THE WOLVES AT EVELYN, and many others.

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