Starting from Ameliasburgh: The Collected Prose of Al Purdy

Sommario

Editorial Note
Introduction

I No Other Country
The Cartography of Myself [1971]
The Iron Road [1963]
Lights on the Sea [1974]
Cougar Hunter [1974]

A Place by the Sea [1992]
Ghost Towns of BC [1995]
Imagine a Town [1972]
Dryland Country [1977]
Streetlights on the St. Lawrence [1974]
Angus [1974]
Norma, Eunice, and Judy [1974]
Bonjour? [1977]
Aklavik on the Mackenzie River [1976]
Harbour Deep [1977]
Argus in Labrador [1975
"Her Gates Both East and West" [1972]
Introduction to Moths in the Iron Curtain [1977]
Field Notes: Birdwatching at the Equator [1983]
Northern Reflections [1993]
Jackovich and the Salmon Princess [1975]

II The Writing Life
Autobiographical Introduction [1979] Charles Bukowski: It Catches My Heart in Its Hands [1964]
Leonard Cohen: A Personal Look [1965]
Beautiful Losers [1967]
Irving Layton: Balls for a One-Armed Juggler [1963]
The Collected Poems of Irving Layton [1966]
Constantine Fitzgibbon. The Life of Dylan Thomas [1966]
Farley Mowat: Westviking, Sea of Slaughter; Helge Ingstad: Land Under the Pole Star [1967,1985]
Milton Acorn: Introduction to I've Tasted My Blood [1969]
Margaret Atwood: The Animals in That Count [1969] The Journals of Susanna Moodie [1971].
Malcolm Lowry [1974]
George Woodcock:
Introduction to Notes on Visitations [1975]
George Woodcock, 1912-1995 [1995]
The Literary History of Canada [1977]
Peter Trower: Introduction to Ragged Horizons [1978]
R.G. Everson. Introduction to Everson at Eighty [1983]
Earle Birney: The Creative Writer [1967] Turvey [1989] Last Makings [1991]
F.R.Scott: The Dance is One [1973]
Sandra Djwa: The Life of F.R.Scott [1989]
David Pitt: E.J.Pratt: The Master Years [1988]
Rudyard Kipling [1989]
Bliss Carman [1990]

Poetry Chronicle 1958-1990
Louis Dudek: Laughing Stalks; En Mexico [1958]
Roy Campbell: Collected Poems Vol. II [1959]
Raymond Souster: The Colour of the Times [1964]
John Newlove: Moving in Alone [ 1965] The Cave [1971] Lies [1973]
New Wave Canada, Raymond Souster ed. [1967]
Group Review I:
Seymour Mayne: From the Portals of the Mouseholes; Bill Bissett: Fires in the Temple; Pat Lane: Letters from the Savage Mind; Jim Brown: The Circus of the Boy's Eye [1968]
Group Review II:
George Jonas: The Absolute Smile; D.G. Jones: Phrases from Orpheus; Roy Kiyooka: Nevertheless These Eyes; A.J.M. Smith: Poems, New and Collected; Dennis Lee: Kingdom, of Absence; Raymond Souster: As Is; P.K. Page: Cry Ararat!; Lionel Kearns: Pointing; George Woodcock: Selected Poems; Alden Nowlan: Bread, Wine and Salt; Louis Dudek and Michael Gnarowski: The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada [1968]
Poets Between the Wars, Milton Wilson ed. [1968]
Group Review III:
George Bowering: Touch: Selected Poems; Bill Bissett: Nobody Owns th Earth; Doug Fetherling: Our Man in Utopia; Bill Howell: The Red Fox [1972]
Ralph Gustafson: Selected Poems [1973]
George Johnston: The Faroe Islanders Saga [1976]
Alden Nowlan: An Exchange of Gifts: Poems New and Selected / John Steffler: The Grey Islands: A Journey [1985]
Anna Akhmatova: The Complete Poems [1990]
Acknowledgments
Index

Info autore

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Al Purdy was born December 30, 1918, in Wooler, Ontario and died at Sidney, BC, April 21, 2000. Raised in Trenton, Ontario, he lived throughout Canada as he developed his reputation as one of Canada's greatest writers. His collections included two winners of the Governor General's Award, Cariboo Horses (1965) and Collected Poems (1986)
and other classics such as Poems for All the Annettes, In Search of Owen Roblin and Piling Blood. Later in life, he travelled widely with his wife Eurithe and settled in Ameliasburg, Ontario and Sidney, BC. In addition to his thirty-three books of poetry, he published a novel, an autobiography and nine collections of essays and correspondence. He was appointed to the Order of Canada in 1983 and the Order of Ontario in 1987. His ashes are buried in Ameliasburg at the end of Purdy Lane.

Riassunto

During the years Al Purdy was becoming one of Canada's best-loved poets, he also wrote and published many pages of distinctive prose. This selection of almost forty years of essays and anecdotes is vintage Purdy. Part I, No Other Country, consists of essays on seeing the world as a Canadian. It begins as a fascinating travel diary as Purdy takes the reader riding the rails through the Depression-era West, continues to Labrador to search for two lost Inuit hunters, and covers an astonishing variety of points between. Part II, The Writing Life, offers distinctive personal takes on the work of Charles Bukowski, Margaret Atwood, Irving Layton, Peter Trower, Bliss Carman and Rudyard Kipling, as well as touching personal memoirs of friends such as Milton Acorn, Malcolm Lowry and Earle Birney. Part III reviews poets from from Raymond Souster to bill bissett, and ends with a tribute to Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. Even in Purdy's sidetrips to the Galapagos Islands and the former Soviet Union, the spirit that permeates Starting from Ameliasburgh is passionately Canadian. "There is a tireless runner in my blood," Purdy writes, "that encircles the borderlands of Canada through the night hours, and sleeps when day arrives. Then my mind awakes and the race continues... This is what I was and what I became...The map of my country, the carography of myself."

Whether describing Newfoundland fishermen cod-jigging for the body of a comrade killed by a whale, or Milton Acorn "ranting untranslatable PEI lobster jargon," or Roderick Haig-Brown "writing his first book longhand in school scribblers, while devil's club thorns pop out of his arms and shoulders," Purdy's prose crackles with the vitality of a mind that is never at rest.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Al Purdy
• Con la collaborazione di: Sam Solecki (Editore)
• Editore: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.01.1995
• EAN: 9781550171273
• ISBN: 978-1-55017-127-3
• Pagine: 400
• Dimensioni: 165 mm x 229 mm x 33 mm
• Peso: 794 g
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese