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Title The ivory thought : essays on Al Purdy / edited by Gerald Lynch, Shoshannah Ganz, and Josephene T.M. Kealey
Published Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (265 pages)
Series Reappraisals, Canadian writers, 1189-6787 ; 32
Re-appraisals, Canadian writers ; 32.
Contents Reference Key; Introduction; Ingredients for Certain Poems by Al Purdy; Materials for a Biography of Al Purdy; Unremembered and Learning Much: LAC Alfred W. Purdy; Al Purdy: Ivory Thots and the Last Romantic; Purdy among the Tombs; Beyond Forgetting: Editing Purdy] Purdy Editing; 'I couldn't write it like that anyway': Al Purdy's Hiroshima Poems; Purdy's Ruins: In Search of Owen Roblin, Literary Power, and the Poetics of the Picturesque; Arctic Al: Purdy's Humanist Vision of the North; Good People; 'Living in a Land of Giants': Locating and Sustaining Boyhood
Summary If one poet can be said to be the Canadian poet, that poet is Al Purdy (1918-2000). Numerous eminent scholars and writers have attested to this pre-eminent status. George Bowering described him as "the world's most Canadian poet" (1970), while Sam Solecki titled his book-length study of Purdy The Last Canadian Poet (1999). In The Ivory Thought: Essays on Al Purdy, a group of seventeen scholars, critics, writers, and educators appraise and reappraise Purdy's contribution to English literature. They explore Purdy's continuing significance to contemporary writers; the life he dedicated to literat
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Purdy, Al, 1918-2000 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Purdy, Al, 1918-2000 -- Critique et interpretation
Purdy, Al, 1918-2000 -- Criticism and interpretation
Purdy, Al, 1918-2000 fast
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM -- Canadian.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Lynch, Gerald, 1953-
Ganz, Shoshannah, 1976-
Kealey, Josephene T. M., 1980-
ISBN 9780776617572
0776617575