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Product Description: In this his ninth volume of poetry, Rienzi Crusz takes on the nineteenth-century Sri Lankan Robin Hood figure, the legendary Sardiel. Through documentary historical extracts and poetry in a variety of voices, styles and rhythms, Crusz creates a composite portrait of the man, who emerged from humble and despised origins and went through rebellion and inspiration to become an outlaw both celebrated and reviled, at once charitable and cold-blooded and murderous, and who following his capture converted to Crhistianity before going to meet the hangman's rope...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: You are about to read a book like no other. Bloody Jack is a collection about the making and unmaking of story, of poetry and of history. Based loosely on the life of John Krafchenko, a notorious Manitoban outlaw, the poems of Bloody Jack turn fact and fiction upside down and inside out...read more

Product Description: Fue un arquetípico héroe y forajido del folclore inglés medieval, según la leyenda era un hombre llamado Robin Longstride o Robin de Locksley, quien era de gran corazón y vivía fuera de la ley, escondido en el Bosque de Sherwood y de Barnsdale, cerca de la ciudad de Nottingham...read more

Fact and legend are combined in this journey into the mind and character of the notorious outlaw