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Born in Vancouver, Stan Rogal obtained
a B.A. from Simon Fraser University, majoring in English
and doing a double minor in Philosophy and Theatre. He moved
to Toronto in 1987, where he completed an M.A. in English
at York University. He ran the popular Idler Pub Reading
Series for ten years, was co-creator of Bald Ego Theatre,
and is now the artistic director of Bulletproof Theatre.
His work has appeared in several anthologies (The Edges
of Time, Seraphim Editions 1999) and numerous literary magazines,
and he is the author of seven books of poetry, two novels
and three short story collections.
In Search of the Emerald City re-synthesizes three modern
myths at once: Oz, Rimbaud, and Van Gogh. By poetic collage
and pastiche, and through verbal prestidigitation, this
veteran writer morphs familiar motifs from pop, middle and
highbrow culture into a strange, darkly mischievous brew.
The wholesome, fantastical fortunes of Dorothy of Kansas
are shadowed jaggedly by the legends of the tormented poet
and painter.
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