About the Author

Robert Finley teaches English literature at l'Université Ste-Anne. He is the editor of the trilingual magazine Feux chalins. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Reviews

"Imagine the infant Christopher Columbus vaulting out of his cradle, striking his head on the world, and spawning his megalomaniacal wanderlust. Thus Robert Finley begins his exquisite prose poem, The Accidental Indies, a fantasy of precise language and provacative imagery. I suspect Finley of past lives or channeling or worse, because he seems to know what really happened heading westward over the water in 1492. You do not simply read this story, you ride it, relish it, and sometimes find yourself in it." --Dava Sobel, author of Galileo's Daughter