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Sam Solecki is a professor of English at the University of Toronto and a former editor of The Canadian Forum.He is also editor of Beyond Remembering: The Collected Poems of Al Purdy, Starting from Ameliasburgh: The Collected Prose of Al Purdy and Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems 1962–1996. His most recent books are Ragas of Longing: The Poetry of Michael Ondaatje and The Last Canadian Poet: An Essay on Al Purdy.
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Beyond Remembering: The Collected Poems of Al Purdy
1550172255 · September 2000 · $44.95
"If you want to read some decent strong human stuff without fakery I'd say Al Purdy the Canadian. . . one of the few very good poets since 1900."
-Charles Bukowski
"Purdy is one of the most substantial poets in English of the century."
-Dennis Lee |
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One Muddy Hand: Selected Poems
1550173707 · October 2006 · $18.95
Over the hill and
sinking fast in the bog
i’ve time just to wave
one muddy hand
—from "For Wailan," 1986
The poems of Earle Birney, one of Canada's finest writers, are now in print once again. |
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Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems 1962-1996
1550171488 · 1996 · $16.95
The definitive Al Purdy selected.
Finalist for CBC Radio's Canada Reads 2006! |
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Yours, Al: The Collected Letters of Al Purdy
1550173324 · October 2004 · $44.95
“Dear John: I was down in your neck or coccyx of the woods last week and put my arms around an ex-pro boxer’s wife in a drunken euphoria and nearly got my profile altered to 7500 A.D. . . . Dear Louis: I was just talking to Peter Brown and he says you hate me . . . What a waste of time. . . . Dear Buc: I always used to tell Birney if he died before me I was gonna grind him up and marinate him for an aphrodisiac. I like the guy, but never could figure out his apparent attraction to women . . .”
—from various letters |
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