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The Ivory Thought: Essays on Al Purdy, 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 , The Ivory Thought: Essays on Al Purdy
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  • The Ivory Thought: Essays on Al Purdy
  • Written by author Gerald Lynch
  • Published by University of Ottawa Press, 2/28/2008
  • 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
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Ingredients for Certain Poems by Al Purdy Stephen Brockwell Brockwell, Stephen 9

Materials for a Biography of Al Purdy Sam Solecki Solecki, Sam 13

Unremembered and Learning Much: LAC Alfred W. Purdy D. M. R. Bentley Bentley, D. M. R. 31

Al Purdy: Ivory Thots and the Last Romantic Sandra Djwa Djwa, Sandra 51

Purdy among the Tombs George Bowering Bowering, George 63

Beyond Forgetting: Editing Purdy] Purdy Editing Dean Irvine Irvine, Dean 71

'I couldn't write it like that anyway': Al Purdy's Hiroshima Poems Joel Baetz Baetz, Joel 91

Purdy's Ruins: In Search of Owen Roblin, Literary Power, and the Poetics of the Picturesque Robert David Stacey Stacey, Robert David 103

Arctic Al: Purdy's Humanist Vision of the North I. S. MacLaren MacLaren, I. S. 119

Good People Gwendolyn Guth Guth, Gwendolyn 137

'Living in a Land of Giants': Locating and Sustaining Boyhood Margaret Steffler Steffler, Margaret 143

'Kind of ludicrous or kind of beautiful I guess': Al Purdy's Rhetoric of Failure Janice Fiamengo Fiamengo, Janice 159

Song and Silence in Al Purdy's Family Elegies Jeremy Lalonde Lalonde, Jeremy 173

'Buried bones and ornaments and stuff': Purdy's Reliquary Poetics Tim Heath Heath, Tim 191

On Trying to Wear Al's Shirts Steven Heighton Heighton, Steven 213

Reflections on a Dynamic Collaboration Doug Beardsley Beardsley, Doug 221

Al Purdy, Sam Solecki, and Canadian Tradition Tracy Ware Ware, Tracy 227

Conclusion, Retrospective, and Prospective D. M. R. Bentley Bentley, D. M. R. 239

Select Bibliography of Secondary Materials 247

Contributors 251


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