Poetic Obituaries: In 1966, [Robin] Blaser moved to Vancouver,

where he spent two decades as a distingished professor at Simon Fraser University, before retiring to professor emeritus in 1986. The last surviving member of the original trio, Blaser became mentor, friend and beloved teacher to multiple generations of writers, existing as an example of how far language could move outside the borders of structural and intellectual form, influencing a huge group of Canadian and American writers such as George Bowering, Stan Persky, Daphne Marlatt, John Ashbery, Robert Creeley, Michael Ondaatje, Steve McCaffery, Erin Mouré, BP Nichol, Sharon Thesen, Phyllis Webb and Fanny Howe.

After his retirement, Blaser was invited to lecture at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.

from Capital Xtra: The incomparable Robin Blaser

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