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Robert Bringhurst

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October 16, 1946 in Los Angeles, California, The United States

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Poetry, Nonfiction

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Robert Bringhurst is a Canadian poet, typographer and author. He is the author of The Elements of Typographic Style – a reference book of typefaces, glyphs and the visual and geometric arrangement of type. He has also translated works of epic poetry from Haida mythology into English.

He lives on Quadra Island, near Campbell River, British Columbia (approximately 170 km northwest of Vancouver).

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Books by Robert Bringhurst

Average rating: 4.32 · 1,670 ratings · 170 reviews · 26 distinct works

	The Elements of Typographic Style 4.39 avg rating — 1,374 ratings — published 1992 — 10 editions	My rating:
	A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World 4.31 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Solid Form of Language: An Essay on Writing and Meaning 3.89 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	The Tree Of Meaning: Thirteen Talks 4.31 avg rating — 36 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Everywhere Being Is Dancing: Twenty Pieces of Thinking 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Nine Visits to the Mythworld: Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas by Robert Bringhurst, Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Selected Poems 4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Being in Being: The Collected Works of Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay 4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Pieces of Map, Pieces of Music 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems, 1972-1982 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1982 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do with social and economic control.”
― Robert Bringhurst, The Solid Form of Language: An Essay on Writing and Meaning

tags: language , literature , writing

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“If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain - and there is no reason to think that those alternatives are inferior.”
― Robert Bringhurst, The Solid Form of Language: An Essay on Writing and Meaning

tags: civilization , humanity , language , society , writing

9 people liked it

“Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.”
― Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style

tags: design , language , typography

7 people liked it

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