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Joseph Rosenblatt (born December 26, 1933) is a Canadian poet who lives in Qualicum Beach, British Columbia. He has won Canada's Governor-General's Award and British Columbia's B.C. Book Prize for poetry.〔"(Joe Rosenblatt: Biography )," Canadian Poetry Online. Web, Mar. 19, 2011.〕 He is also a talented artist, whose "line drawings, paintings, and sketches often illustrate his own and other poets’ books of poetry."〔Heather Pyrcz, "(The Experimental Poets )," A Digital History of Canadian Poetry, YoungPoets.ca, Web, Apr. 22, 2011.〕 ==Life and writing== Born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Rosenblatt grew up in the city's Kensington Market area and attended Lansdowne Public School.〔 Later he went to Central Technical School, but dropped out and worked in a variety of blue-collar jobs.〔Sharon Drache, "(Rosenblatt, Joseph )," ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988), 1887〕 In 1956 he became a laborer for the Canadian Pacific Railway.〔"(Joe Rosenblatt )," QualicumFrameworksGallery.ca, Web, Apr. 22, 2011.〕 A Joe Rosenblatt ran in the Toronto municipal election, 1958, for city council in Ward 1 (Riverdale), receiving 521 votes. He began seriously writing poetry in the early 1960s. "He became interested in writing through his association with the worker poet Milton Acorn in the early sixties and the metaphysical poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen."〔 He "got his start with the help of other poets: Milton Acorn, Al Purdy and Earle Birney."〔 His first book, ''The L.S.D. Leacock'', was published in 1966. In the same year he received a Canada Council grant that allowed him to quit his railway job and write full-time.〔 Since then, in his 40-year career, "Rosenblatt has written more than 20 books of poetry, several autobiographical works and his poems have appeared in over thirty anthologies of Canadian poetry.... He has traveled widely giving readings of his poems in Europe, Canada and the United States."〔 ''Books in Canada'' wrote of him in 1988 that, "street smart, water wise, heaven bent, Joe Rosenblatt is a talented man, fisher of gods, and a school in himself. He makes you feel things that are hard to touch: bee fur, tadpoles, and the human heart."〔 Rosenblatt sums up his philosophy of writing in this way: :I write to escape hyper reality – genocide of man, elephants and fish – the death of the ozone layer, the industrial of the earth – My affordable opiate is my Muse. It allows me to float into a dream state and create an escapist literature. Let the prose-fanciers, the dog people as opposed to poetic feline fancier – indulge in grim reality. The very thought of reality gives me hives.〔"(Joe Rosenblatt: Writing Philosophy )", Canadian Poetry Online. Web, March 22, 2011.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joe Rosenblatt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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