Robert Bringhurst

Robert Bringhurst (Los Ángeles, 16 de octubre de 1946 (77 años)) es un poeta, tipógrafo y escritor canadiense. Autor de The Elements of Typographic Style, obra de referencia obligada sobre tipos de letra, glifos y la disposición geométrica y visual de los tipos. También ha traducido al inglés obras de poesía épica de mitología Haida.

Biografía

En la actualidad reside en Quadra Island, cerca de Campbell River, Columbia Británica.

The Shipwright's Log – 1972
Cadastre – 1973
Eight Objects – 1975
Bergschrund – 1975
Tzuhalem's Mountain – 1982
The Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems 1972–82 – 1982 (nominated for a Governor General's Award), 1985 (Copper Canyon Press)
Tending the Fire – 1985
The Blue Roofs of Japan – 1986
Pieces of Map, Pieces of Music – 1986, 1987 (Copper Canyon Press)
Conversations with a Toad – 1987
The Calling: Selected Poems 1970–1995 – 1995
Elements (with drawings by Ulf Nilsen) – 1995
The Book of Silences – 2001
Ursa Major – 2003 (shortlisted for the 2004 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize)
New World Suite Number Three: A poem in four movements for three voices – 2006
Selected Poems – 2009

Visions: Contemporary Art in Canada (with Geoffrey James, Russel Keziere & Doris Shadbolt) – 1983
Ocean/Paper/Stone – 1984
The Raven Steals the Light (with Bill Reid) – 1984
Shovels, Shoes and the Slow Rotation of Letters – 1986
The Black Canoe (with photographs by Ulli Steltzer) – 1991
Boats Is Saintlier than Captains: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Morality, Language, and Design – 1997
Native American Oral Literatures and the Unity of the Humanities – 1998
A Short History of the Printed Word (with Warren Chappell) – 1999
The Elements of Typographic Style – 1992, revised 1996, revised 2004, revised 2005
The Solid Form Of Language: An Essay On Writing And Meaning – 2004
The Tree of Meaning: Thirteen Lectures 2006
Everywhere Being is Dancing 2007
The Surface of Meaning: Books and Book Design in Canada – 2008

A trilogy entitled Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers:
- A Story As Sharp As a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World – 1999 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
- Nine Visits to the Mythworld – (a reinterpretation of the stories of mythteller Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas, as collected in 1900 by John Reed Swanton^[1]) – 2000 (shortlisted for the 2001 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize)
- Being in Being: The Collected Works of a Master Haida Mythteller - Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay – 2002
Parmenides, The Fragments – 2003