The Ivory Thought
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The Ivory Thought
About This Book
If one poet can be said to be the Canadian poet, that poet is Al Purdy (1918ā2000). 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Reference Key
- Introduction
- Ingredients for Certain Poems by Al Purdy
- Materials for a Biography of Al Purdy
- Unremembered and Learning Much: LAC Alfred W. Purdy
- Ai Purdy: Ivory Thots and the Last Romantic
- Purdy among the Tombs
- Beyond Forgetting: Editing Purdy] Purdy Editing
- āI couldnāt write it like that anywayā: Al Purdyās Hiroshima Poems
- Purdyās Ruins: In Search of Owen Roblin, Literary Power, and the Poetics of the Picturesque
- Arctic Al: Purdyās Humanist Vision of the North
- Good People
- āLiving in a Land of Giantsā: Locating and Sustaining Boyhood
- āKind of ludicrous or kind of beautiful I guessā: Al Purdyās Rhetoric of Failure
- Song and Silence in Al Purdyās Family Elegies
- āBuried bones and ornaments and stuff: Purdyās Reliquary Poetics
- On Trying to Wear Alās Shirts
- Reflections on a Dynamic Collaboration
- Al Purdy, Sam Solecki, and Canadian Tradition
- Conclusion, Retrospective, and Prospective
- Select Bibliography of Secondary Materials
- Contributors
- Index
- Footnotes