Dead Man's Float by Derk Wynand - Mexican Dogs (Brick Books) - Brick Books Poetry Map (sitios de interés)

Dead Man's Float details that sad emblem of Western alienation, the tourist couple in their rented tropical Eden. Here life is temporary and not at all cheap.

The wildlife is spectacular, the culture incomprehensible, and the locals politely try to hide their hilarity at Canadian pidgin Spanish.

Heat, beaches, ruins - why did we think they could distract us from domestic squabbling or the 3 a.m. dreads?

Derk Wynand was born in Bad Suderode, Germany in 1944 and has lived in Canada since 1952.

The author of several works of poetry, fiction and translation, and a former editor of The Malahat Review. He taught English and Creative Writing at the University of Victoria from 1969 to 2004, serving six years as Chair of the Dept. of Writing.

Brick Books published Wynand's Closer to Home in 1997. He has a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of British Columbia, and He lives in Victoria with his wife Eva.

Cover art: 'Dead Man's Float' by Eva Wynand, 2000

Derk Wynand reads Mexican Dogs from Dead Man's Float on Audioboo

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