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Elephant Street

Elephant Street


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About the Book

Elephant Street offers a series of poetic responses to the vulnerability of the human urbanite in the twenty-first century. This vulnerability has always been with us, as has the ages-old quest for some form of safe passage through an existence in which our loved ones, our bodies and our very lives are on loan to us.

Ron Charach has learned about terror -- external and internal -- at the side of patients whose exquisite sensitivity makes them, willingly or not, the antennae of the race. His understanding of the human condition gives the lie to wishful phrases like "homeland security," which are of little more comfort than scientific promises that our molecules persist forever after we die.

In this compelling book, we cross Elephant Street with its booming radios, smoky hot-dog smells and hurling traffic, with comforting Biblical passages ringing in our ears. We are in the company of a good friend who challenges us to lay aside our transcendentalism and enjoy the brief respite that comes from toasting the ironies of the human condition with an imaginary glass of wine.


About the Author:

Ron Charach was born and raised in Winnipeg, and educated in medicine and psychiatry in Winnipeg, Toronto and New York, completing his training in child and adolescent psychiatry at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in 1980.

Charach's poetry has appeared in most Canadian literary journals, as well as in The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine, and in the anthology of world physician poetry, Blood & Bone, published by the University of Iowa Press.

Charach's poems have won praise from prize-winning poets as diverse as Roo Borson, Don Coles and Don Mckay.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780921833895
  • Publisher: Signature Editions
  • Publisher Imprint: Signature Editions
  • Height: 230 mm
  • No of Pages: 96
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 218 gr
  • ISBN-10: 092183389X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 155 mm


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