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The more easily kept illusions : the poetry of Al Purdy  Cover Image E-book E-book

The more easily kept illusions : the poetry of Al Purdy

Purdy, Al 1918-2000 (Author). Budde, Robert, 1966- (Added Author).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780889204904
  • ISBN: 088920490X
  • ISBN: 9781423785538
  • ISBN: 9781280465666
  • ISBN: 1423785533
  • ISBN: 1280465662
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (80 pages).
    remote
    Computer data.
  • Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, �2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:
CatMonthString:august.19
Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Restrictions on Access Note:
Restrictions unspecified
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML), electronic book.
Reproduction Note:
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:
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
Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:
Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:
Made available online by EBSCO.
Action Note:
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: Multi-User.
Canada
POETRY -- American -- General
Medical policy
Medical policy -- Canada
Genre: Canadian poetry > 20th century.
Electronic books.

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