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edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
category: Literary Criticism
published: Feb 2008
ISBN:9780776606651
publisher: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
imprint: University of Ottawa Press

The Ivory Thought

Essays on Al Purdy

edited by Gerald Lynch; Shoshannah Ganz & Josephene Kealey

tagged: canadian, poetry
Description

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 literature and the persona he crafted; the influences acting on his development as a poet; the ongoing scholarly projects of editing and publishing his writing; particular poems and individual books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction; and the larger themes in his work, such as the Canadian North and the predominant importance of place. In addition, two contemporary poets pay tribute with original poems.
Published in English.

About the Authors

Gerald Lynch


Shoshannah Ganz


Josephene Kealey

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