Robert Bringhurst
# Robert Bringhurst

Robert Bringhurst (Los Ángeles, 16 de octubre de 1946 (76 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

Nacido en Los Ángeles, California, fue criado en Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Alberta y Columbia Británica. Estudió arquitectura, lingüística y física en el Massachusetts Institute of Technology, y posteriormente literatura comparada y filosofía en la Universidad de Utah. También posee un BA de la Universidad de Indiana y un MFA en narración creativa de la Universidad de Columbia Británica.

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

## Bibliografía

### Poesía

* 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

### Prosa

* 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

### Traducciones

* 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) – 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
