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MORE EASILY KEPT ILLUSIONS
THE POETRY OF AL PURDY |
| By: |
Al Purdy, Robert Budde (Editor), Russell Morton Brown |
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Paperback |
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£16.99 |
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£15.29 |
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£1.70 |
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| ISBN 10: |
088920490X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780889204904 |
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| Publisher: |
WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 2006 |
| Pages: |
96 |
| Description: |
Much-loved, cantankerous, and brilliant, Al Purdy galloped across the Canadian literary landscape for decades, grandly embodying the self-taught and hard-living image of the 1960s and '70s poet. This is a selection of thirty-five poems that includes some of his best-loved treasures. It also re-interprets the thematic development of his writing. |
| Synopsis: |
Much-loved, cantankerous, and brilliant, Al Purdy galloped across the Canadian literary landscape for decades, grandly embodying the self-taught and hard-living image of the 1960s and '70s poet. The More Easily Kept Illusions: The Poetry of Al Purdy is a selection of thirty-five poems that includes some of his best-loved and unearths lost and ignored treasures. Robert Budde introduces the collection with an overview of Purdy's tumultuous life of letters, his legendary personality, his outrageous antics, his peers, his influences, and the history of his publishing career. Reorganizing Purdy's body of work, this collection also re-interprets the chronological and thematic development of his writing. Choosing poems for a book like this is necessarily an act of literary criticism and Budde takes care to balance the various critical attentions that have structured the historical responses to Purdy's work. The selected poems will mix lesser-known gems with Purdy's greatest hits. Teachers, poetry-lovers, students, and writers will rediscover Purdy's unique voice. Those who are new to his work will get a full and rich sense of the man some have called the last Canadian poet.Also includes an Afterword by Russell Morton Brown. |
| Publication: |
Canada |
| Imprint: |
Wilfrid Laurier University Press |
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