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Walid Bitar was born in Beirut, Lebanon and immigrated to Canada with his family in He attended the University of Toronto before traveling and working in Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Bitar now lives in Toronto.
Poetry
2 Guys on Holy Land
Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press ; Distributed by University Press of New England,
Publishers Synopsis (from its website)
The poetry of Walid Bitar is a bracing antidote to the decorous meditations and maudlin confessions of much of modern American poetry.
Sharp, engaged, and darkly funny, Bitar’s poetry explores the conflicts and tensions inherent at the intersection of traditional Western modes of thought with modern geopolitical realities. In his first collection, Bitar employs a supple language in a bitingly satiric mode.
Poetry
Bastardi Puri
Erin, Ont.: Porcupines Quill,
PS .I B37
Publishers Synopsis (from its website)
Walid Bitars poems read as if transmitted in softly staccato impulses from so