at the University of California, Berkeley. Bringhurst has been defended by Margaret Atwood, who says that "territorial squabbling cannot obscure the fact that Bringhurst's achievement is gigantic as well as heroic", and that far from appropriating native voices, Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers "restores to life two exceptional poets we ought to know". The CBC documentary was attacked in print for relying "entirely on the fallacy, convenient to the producers, that Bringhurst had not consulted with any Haida". Bringhurst with the help of Bill Reid had spent the better part of the previous decade working with members of the Haida community. People from other indigenous Canadian communities, such as the late Cree elder Wilna Hodgson have also defended Bringhurst. In a letter to the editor of Books in Canada, she called A Story as Sharp as a Knife "a gift to First Nation people across [Canada]", and a true "masterpiece in the growing genre of spoken texts". In her opinion, Bringhurst's "efforts are clearly informed with the kind of integrity that all translators might strive to emulate". Bringhurst says that "culture is not genetic" and that he pays respect to Native American languages like Haida by allowing works from those languages to be appreciated as art by as wide an audience as possible. He says he always intended his translations to be "[exercises] in literary history, not in the interpretation of present-day Haida culture". Bibliography Poetry The Shipwright's Log, 1972 Cadastre, 1973 Deuteronomy, 1974 (Sono Nis Press, Delta, British Columbia, Canada) Eight Objects, 1975 (Kanchenjunga Press) Bergschrund, 1975 Tzuhalem's Mountain, 1982 The Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems 1972–82, 1982, nominated for a Governor General's Award; 1985 (Copper Canyon Press) Tending the Fire, 1985 The Blue Roofs of Japan, 1986 (Barbarian Press) Pieces of Map, Pieces of Music, 1986, 1987 (Copper Canyon Press) Conversations with a Toad, 1987 The Calling: Selected Poems 1970–1995, 1995 Elements, with drawings by Ulf Nilsen, 1995 The Book of Silences, 2001 Ursa Major, 2003, short-listed for the 2004 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize New World Suite Number Three: A Poem in Four Movements for Three Voices, 2006 Selected Poems, 2009 (Gaspereau Press) Selected Poems, 2010 (Jonathan Cape) Selected Poems, 2012 (Copper Canyon Press) Stopping By, 2012 (Hirundo Press) Going Down Singing, 2016 (Two Ponds Press) Prose Ocean/Paper/Stone, 1984 The Raven Steals the Light, with Bill Reid, 1984 Shovels, Shoes and the Slow Rotation of Letters,