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We Go Far Back in Time

The Letters of Earle Birney and Al Purdy, 1947-1984
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This collection of letters illustrates the long friendship between two of Canada's most highly regarded poets, Earle Birney and Al Purdy. Beginning with Purdy's lauding of, and jabbing at, a poet he admired but had never met, it captures the changing relationship between the writers, each of whom was fiercely committed to the other's work. The letters are full of mutual praise and stern criticism, as Purdy and Birney, relentless in their pursuit of poetic success, look to each other for advice and share their many dissatisfactions with the literary life. We Go Far Back in Time is an intimate look into the lives of two great poets who found common ground in their writing and in the changing fortunes of their literary careers.

Author Biography:

Al Purdy's down-to-earth voice populates thirty-three books, including The Cariboo Horses (1965), North of Summer (1967), Sex &Death (1973), and Piling Blood (1984). The two major collections of his work are The Collected Poems of Al Purdy (1986) and Beyond Remembering: The Collected Poems of Al Purdy (2000). Purdy died in Sidney, BC, on April 21, 2000. Nicholas Bradley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Victoria.
Release date Australia
August 14th, 2014
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Contributors
  • Edited by Nicholas Bradley
  • Text by Al Purdy
  • Text by Earle Birney
Pages
480
Dimensions
165x230x41
ISBN-13
9781550176100
Product ID
21404862

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