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Author Purdy, Al, 1918-2000.

Title The more easily kept illusions : the poetry of Al Purdy / selected, with an introduction, by Robert Budde ; and an afterword by Russell Morton Brown.

Publication Info. Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (80 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Laurier poetry series
Laurier poetry series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Foreword / Neil Besner -- Biographical note -- Introduction / Robert Budde -- Mind process re a faucet -- Remains of an Indian village -- Winter walking -- Hockey players -- Home-made beer -- Eskimo graveyard -- Trees at the Arctic Circle -- Tent rings -- When I sat down to play the piano -- At the Quinte Hotel -- Love at Roblin Lake -- Interruption -- Wilderness gothic -- Lament for the Dorsets -- Joint account -- Depression in Namu, BC -- Eastbound from Vancouver -- The horseman of Agawa -- Flat tire in the Desert -- Inside the mill -- Deprivations -- Alive or not -- Rodeo -- On realizing he was written some bad poems -- After rain -- The nurselog -- A typical day in Winnipeg -- In the early cretaceous -- Purely internal music -- Orchestra -- Red leaves -- Orchestra -- Earle Birney in hospital -- Untitled -- For her in sunlight -- Afterword : as the dream holds the real / Russell Morton Brown.
Summary This is a selection of 35 poems by one of Canada's best loved and most cantankerous poets, with introduction by Budde, and an Afterword by Russell Brown.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Medical policy -- Canada.
Medical policy.
Canada.
Genre/Form Canadian poetry -- 20th century.
Electronic books.
Added Author Budde, Robert, 1966-
Other Form: Print version: Purdy, Al, 1918-2000. More easily kept illusions. Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2006 088920490X (OCoLC)64670632
ISBN 1423785533 (electronic book)
9781423785538 (electronic book)
1280465662
9781280465666
9780889204904
088920490X