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  Amazon.ca: Books: Mapping the Chaos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Tregebov believes that one has to love oneself, then extend that love outward to one's birthplace, family, and current place of residence, as well as to the rest of the world, including the stars and sky.
Tregebov's speaker is middle-class; she "can afford compassion, the rent money in the pocket...can walk to the money machine, punch in the magic code and stuff [her] wallet with twenties till it chokes." She realizes she is a privileged bystander to the poor and the angry.
Tregebov is a writer with broad interests: she finds inspiration in newspapers, radio broadcasts, and speaks of "physics envy".
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/155065070X   (1301 words)

  
 Young Poets
Tregebov is in New Westminster, BC, where she is spending a whirlwind week as Writer-in-Residence at Douglas College.
Tregebov says that the very first poetic influence for her was the Old Testament in Hebrew.
Tregebov is very encouraged by the young people she sees who know writing poetry is what they want to do and pursue that goal.
www.youngpoets.ca /poetstalk/tregebov.php   (700 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In her fifth collection of poetry, Rhea Tregebov enlists that venerable poetic disposition, the elegy, to explore how far we have to go in making “the world one just place,” and to foreground, what is ultimately, for her, an ethical project.
Tregebov’s collection possesses an admirable degree of structural and thematic cohesion; its thirty-five elegies (discrete poems combined with serial poems) could be read as a long poem.
Tregebov, McGrath, and Morton are well equipped to undertake their discursive, worldly projects.
www.canlit.ca /reviews/178/5665_Lynes.html   (384 words)

  
 PSH Webstore - Strength of Materials, The - Canadian Poetry and Poets
In The Strength of Materials, Rhea Tregebov sets out to write an entire book of elegies; it is a daunting task for a poet to keep up the emotional weight of an elegy for the length of a full manuscript.
Tregebov's poems work best when she takes the small, real moment of life and becomes introspective about them.
Tregebov manages to turn from a brief image of a woman gardening to the universal theme of maternal loves in a few magical lines.
www.poets.ca /pshstore/Profile_book.asp?ISBN=0919897762   (734 words)

  
 Rhea Tregebov, Contributor - Banff Centre Press
Rhea Tregebov was born in Saskatoon, raised in Winnipeg, and now lives in Toronto.
Tregebov was co-winner of The Malahat Review Long Poem Competition in 1994 and also received the 1993 Readers' Choice Award for Poetry from Prairie Schooner (Nebraska).
Tregebov has been on the faculty of Writing and Publishing at The Banff Centre.
www.banffcentre.ca /Press/contributors/stu/tregebov_r   (150 words)

  
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 Rhea Tregebov, Comments by Writers and Critics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
"Tregebov's poetry is brilliant in that it makes ordinary things shine brightly, thereby revealing the connections between them."
"Rhea Tregebov's poetry cuts to the quick, exposing us, through cracks in the ordinary and familiar, to the raw wounded flesh."
Rhea Tregebov's works copyright © to the author.
www.library.utoronto.ca /canpoetry/tregebov/crit3.htm   (259 words)

  
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Rhea Tregebov was born in Saskatoon, raised in Winnipeg and lived for many years in Toronto.
Tregebov has also published five children's picture books, including The Big Storm, and is the editor of nine anthologies of essays, poetry and fiction for a number of presses, most recently Gifts: Poems for Parents.
Tregebov received Honorable Mention for the National Magazine Awards (poetry) in 1998.
www.creativewriting.ubc.ca /about/faculty_bio.cfm?faculty_number=37   (192 words)

  
 Sudden Miracles   Sumach Press  
Poems from each woman are introduced with an essay written by the poet herself that aims to both contextualize and demystify the writing.
A major essay by editor Rhea Tregebov provides a critical evaluation of each contributor.
About the Editor: A prizewinning poet, successful children's author and anthologizer of four previous collections, Rhea Tregebov has a polished critical eye that has brought her much acclaim.
www.sumachpress.com /suddmir.htm   (136 words)

  
 UNB Writer-in-Residence Ken McGoogan and Poet Rhea Tregebov to Begin Reading Series -- September 17, 2003 - News@UNB
He will be accompanied by acclaimed poet and children’s writer Rhea Tregebov.
Tregebov is the author of five critically acclaimed collections of poetry.
Tregebov teaches creative writing at Ryerson Polytechnic University and edits works of fiction.
www.unb.ca /news/view.cgi?id=338   (275 words)

  
 Rhea Tregebov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Rhea Tregebov c/o The League of Canadian Poets 54 Wolseley Street, Suite 204 Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5T 1A5 phone: (416) 504-1657 fax...
Rhea Tregebov (Photo: 1989,Peter Higdon) Rhea Tregebov was born in Saskatoon and grew up in Winnipeg.
Rhea Tregebov Rhea Tregebov is a Canadian poet and children's writer who lives in Toronto, Ontario.
www.1uad.com /canadian-writers/8/Rhea-Tregebov.html   (161 words)

  
 Rhea Tregebov
Parry, Mitchell P. Rev. of The Strength of Materials, by Rhea Tregebov.
She studied English at the University of Manitoba, and completed her Masters Degree in English at Boston University.
Poems from Tregebov’s 1995 collection, Mapping the Chaos, won both the Malahat Review Long Poem Award and the Prairie Schooner Readers’ Choice Award.
www.brocku.ca /canadianwomenpoets/Tregebov.htm   (242 words)

  
 Rhea Tregebov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Rhea Tregebov was born in Saskatoon and grew up in Winnipeg.
She presently lives in Toronto, earning a mostly freelance living as a creative writing instructor and editor.
She has published four collections of poetry and four children's picture books.
www.writersunion.ca /t/tregebov.htm   (40 words)

  
 RHEATREGEBOV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Poems from this collection received Honourable Mention for poetry in the 1998 National Magazine Awards.
Tregebov was co-winner of the Malahat Long Poem Contest and winner, in 1993, of the Prairie Schooner Readers' Choice Award.
Her first volume of poetry, (Guernica, 1982), won the League of Canadian Poets' Pat Lowther Award.
zeus.uwindsor.ca /daring/rheatregebov.htm   (178 words)

  
 Northwest Passages - Canadian Literature Online bookstore! We ship worldwide.
Twenty years of Rhea Tregebov's poetry have been collected in this work along with several new poems.
This volume charts the course of a poetic career which has seen Tregebov consistently praised for her elegant writing, carefully shaped lines, and strong poetic voice, all of which are showcased in this new collection.
With this work, it is easy to see how Rhea Tregebov has become the well-respected and popular poet that she is today.
www.nwpassages.com /Profile_book.asp?ISBN=0919897983   (145 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Frictions II :stories by women by Rhea Tregebov
Powell's Books - Frictions II :stories by women by Rhea Tregebov
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Issues of race, sexuality, age and class are powerfully addressed.
www.powells.com /biblio?PID=719&cgi=product&isbn=0929005473   (75 words)

  
 What-If Sara
The victims of hurricane Katrina need your help.
The illustrator of one of the bestselling releases of the year, The Girl Who Hated Books brings her evocative images to a lovely story by acclaimed children's author, Rhea Tregebov.
Most of the time, instead of actually doing anything, Sara spends her days irritating everyone with her questions of "what if this, what if that?" But today is different.
www.allbookstores.com /book/1896764223   (165 words)

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