The Burning Lake (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789888228669)

Jonathan Locke Hart is Chair Professor, Creative Writing, Comparative Literature, Theory, and Literature in English and Director, Centre for Creative Writing and Literary Translation and Culture at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is also Core Faculty in Comparative Literature at Western University and Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he is a poet, writer of other genres, literary scholar and historian who studied at Toronto and Cambridge and has held visiting appointments at Harvard, Cambridge, Princeton, Toronto, the Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III) and elsewhere. The author of many articles and over twenty books, he has been writing since he was thirteen, and, for more than thirty years, his poetry has appeared in literary journals, such as Quarry, Grain, The Antigonish Review, Mattoid and Harvard Review. His books of poetry are Breath and Dust, Dream China, Dream Salvage, Dreamwork, and Musing. He has collaborated with artists on artist books like Darkfire, The Waiting Room and Stow. His poetry has been translated into many languages including French, Chinese, German, Russian, Polish, Romanian, Estonian, Greek, Slovenian and Serbian. In 2016, part of his novel, Not an Incredible Journey, will appear in Serbian.