art of narration, these stories are a pleasure to read. One savours the rich and varied vocabulary, and the experimentation with language and structure.”—Carrie MacMillan, Quill and Quire “Unsnarling String combines humour and down-to-earth philosophy, commonplace experience and delightful eccentricities. Bauer writes about simple things in life that become ridiculously tangled, and about how people reduce life’s complications to simple formulas for survival….. Poems to be read aloud to family and friends.” Richard Lemm, The Atlantic Provinces Book Review Works 1968: Cornet Music for Plupy Shute (New Brunswick Chapbooks) 1971: Everett Coogler (New Brunswick Chapbooks) 1978: The Terrible Word (Fiddlehead Poetry Books) 1979: Family Album (Oberon Press) 1983: Unsnarling String (Fiddlehead Poetry Books) 2010: Bright with Invisible History: A William Bauer Reader, ed. Brian Bartlett (Chapel Street Editions) References 1932 births 2010 deaths Writers from Portland, Maine 20th-century Canadian poets 20th-century Canadian male writers Canadian male poets American emigrants to Canada Writers from Fredericton Poets from Maine University of New Brunswick faculty