Robert Bringhurst

Robert Bringhurst (Los Ángeles, 16 de octubre de 1946 (79 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

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) – 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