Stan Rogal
Stan Rogal was born in Vancouver and obtained his B.A. degree from Simon Fraser University, majoring in English and doing a double minor in Philosophy and Theatre. He moved to Toronto in 1987, where he completed his M.A. degree in English at York University. He is the author of seventeen books: four novels, ten poetry books, and three short story collections. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies throughout Canada, the US, and Europe, and has been translated into several languages. Rogal is the Artistic Director of Bulletproof Theatre. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Books by Stan Rogal
About the Book
Love’s Not The Way To is a collection of haiku poems dedicated to the life and works of Richard Brautigan. The poems reflect both his oeuvre and his life, not only as a tip-of-the-hat homage but also as a way of re-introducing his poetic sensibility to a newer and wider audience. There was something of the English-language Japanese poetic forms that made perfect sense to the aesthetic of Richard Brautigan, and Stan Rogal comes to these forms through a Brautigan lens in this poetry collection. Stan Rogal chose the haiku form as Richard Brautigan is best known as a minimalist writer and he became quite famous in Japan for his short, imagistic poems and for his sensitive and humourous dealings with the transitory notions of love and death.
Reviews
"Rogal has a sharp eye that misses little and carves his haiku with a scalpel blade so honed it’s nearly double-edged."
~ ROB MCLENNAN
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