Crossing the Salt Flats Format:Paperback then at the University of

then at the University of Toronto (1966-95)

runner-up for the Posner Poetry Book Award

a satire of academic and literary life

a finalist for the ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award for a collection of essays

Crossing the Salt Flats Format:Paperback then at the University ofCrossing the Salt Flats is Christopher Wisemans eighth book of poetry. Earlier volumes such as Postcards Home and Remembering Mr. Fox won him awards and spreading recognition. The poems in Crossing the Salt Flats expand on his visual themes memories of childhood laced with vivid detail, journeys, the historical past recreated and imagined. Christopher Wisemans poetry moves widely across time and place, searching out delight, horror, sadness, joy, love