Marianne Bluger

Marianne Bluger (Aug. 28, 1945 Ottawa – Oct. 29, 2005) was a Canadian poet.

Life

She graduated with distinction from McGill University where she studied pre-medical subjects and philosophy as well as taking poetry courses with Louis Dudek.

She later dropped out of medical school to marry a Zen Master Samu Kim of Toronto. They had two children: Michael "Maji" Kim (b. 1969), and Micheline "Agi" Mallory (b. 1970). She married Larry Neily, in 1991.

She was executive secretary – treasurer of the Canadian Writers' Foundation, from 1975 to 2000.^[1] She co-founded Christians Against Apartheid, and the Tabitha Foundation.

Awards

• Canada Council
• 1993 Lampman-Scott Award

Works

• The Thumbless Man is at the Piano. Three Trees Press. 1981. ISBN 0888230451. 
• On Nights Like This. Brick Books. 1984. ISBN 0919626254. 
• Gathering Wild. Brick Books. 1987. ISBN 0919626351. 
• Summer Grass. Brick Books. 1992. ISBN 0919626599. 
• Bluger, Marianne; Haas, Rudi (1996). Tamarack & Clearcut. Carleton University Press. ISBN 088629293X. http://books.google.com/?id=cK7C44s_cEcC&dq=Marianne+Bluger&printsec=frontcover&q=. 
• Gusts. Penumbra Press. 1999. ISBN 0921254865. 
• Scissor, Paper, Woman. Penumbra Press. 2000. ISBN 1894131010. 
• Early Evening Pieces. BuschekBooks. 2003. ISBN 1894543149. 
• Zen Mercies / Small Satoris. Penumbra Press. 2005. ISBN 1894131754. 
• The Eternities. St. Thomas Poetry Series. 2005. ISBN 0973591021. 
• Nude with Scar. Penumbra Press. 2006. ISBN 1894131932. 

Anthologies

• Denis M. Garrison, ed (2007). Five Lines Down: A Landmark in English Tanka. Lulu.com. ISBN 9780615156217. http://books.google.com/?id=vbth34d2TnMC&pg=PA109&dq=Marianne+Bluger&q=Marianne%20Bluger. 
• Bruce Ross, ed (1993). Haiku Moment: An Anthology of Contemporary North American Haiku. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 9780804818209. http://books.google.com/?id=qoky9Rz0wRkC&pg=PA15&dq=Marianne+Bluger&q=Marianne%20Bluger. 

Reviews

Marianne Bluger's seventh book, Scissor, Paper, Woman, invests in images so precise they resound far beyond the pages that contain them.^[2]

References

1. ^ Elizabeth Lumley, ed (2001). Canadian Who's Who 2001, Volume 36. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802049582. http://books.google.com/?id=1vXnt0fkFa4C&pg=PA134&dq=Marianne+Bluger&q=Marianne%20Bluger. 
2. ^ Sally Chivers. "Into & Beyond Bodies". Canadian Literature. http://www.canlit.ca/reviews.php?id=9853. 

External links

• "Author's website"
• "Marianne Bluger", Canadian Poetry, University of Toronto

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Name	Bluger, Marianne
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Date of birth	1945
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Date of death	2005
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